as an octogenarian, my end is closer than my beginning, but hopefully not "closer than you think" tm wt. but
I think: I, me, already SAID and DID --saying and doing it all, so:
as I sink into the deserved last sleep, I would like to have glorious back ground music, even if only in my mind, the one composed by the spiritual people of the past: Bach, Elgar et al.
Our past will be waves like the plank picture and pachelbel.
to each his own.