(Unless otherwise noted, the Kathryn Tucker Windham blog is written by her children, Ben Windham and Dilcy Windham Hilley.) As Mother entered her nineties, she sometimes was asked about dying. Mother had no fear of dying. She called it “the next great adventure.” What she could not tolerate were all the euphemisms people used for death. “Why in the world would someone say they ‘lost’ somebody?” Mother would ask. “Why, that would just be careless! Why can’t people just say someone died?” She had other notions about death and dying. Speaking at a friend’s funeral, Mother said she believed that, when you die and you get your hearing before God, he doesn’t ask if you obeyed the commandments. He doesn’t ask if you led an exemplary life. He simply asks, “Did you have a good time?” What a marvelous way of looking at life and death.
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jimbo
5/1/2017 12:22:48 pm
pretty cool.
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Dilcy
5/1/2017 07:12:31 pm
She was just that cool.
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Carol Adams Ralph
5/1/2017 05:59:39 pm
I love it! We might as well embrace death; we all have to face it (many times).
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Dilcy
5/1/2017 07:13:20 pm
Indeed we do, Carol....
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Miss
5/1/2017 08:28:17 pm
And I bet they say for hours while she shared a few of herFUN adventures!
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Dilcy
5/1/2017 10:36:18 pm
And she had many adventures, Miss!
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Deborah Rankins
5/2/2017 12:42:18 pm
Sign me up for more "good times."
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Dilcy
5/2/2017 07:16:52 pm
You're in charge of the good times, Deborah! You make them all the time.
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Stephanie Prevatte
5/2/2017 01:11:14 pm
I try to be like her and share stories from my life experiences with my students.
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Dilcy
5/2/2017 07:17:57 pm
Your students are fortunate, Stephanie.
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Carole Simmons
5/4/2017 07:29:40 pm
Amen.
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