good for you, everyone should be ready for that day, it will come.
Did you cancel the funeral also?
I won't have one. Have always hated them and was very glad to find out that you don't "have" to have one.
My family all know I want no funeral. In fact, I think we all feel exactly the same as you Granny.
Just started to try catching up.
I saw this over at Mutter's, and it reminded me of the elk situation. The symptoms certainly sound quite similar.
New mystery cow disease in UK
www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/003200406082019.htm
New mystery cow disease in UK
London, June 8. (Guardian News Service): A possible new cattle disease, which might pose a risk to human health, is being urgently investigated by UK government vets.
Tests on a heifer that died after five to six days of weakness in her legs and progressive paralysis have failed to identify any known condition, including BSE. A viral infection that damaged the white matter in the cow's brain is thought responsible for the death more than two months ago.
The animal was at first thought to have died from botulism, a condition that is potentially dangerous to people through infected milk and food and is responsible for similar symptoms.
But that test proved negative, as did checks for West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne fever that Britain has so far escaped, louping-ill, a tick-transmitted disease also found in sheep, and other known conditions.
A spokesman for the UK's Veterinary Laboratories Agency last night said: "The long-term risk to public health is not known. It is impossible to make an assessment of risk on a single case when the agent responsible is not known. We are now investigating this." Officials were last night unable to say where the affected farm was but said no meat from the cow had been allowed into food.
It is understood the brain signature left by the disease looked nothing like BSE but there have been recent suggestions that there is more than one strain of that disease. Ten other cattle which had been in contact with the dead cow have tested negative for louping-ill.
Other vets and farmers will soon be alerted to the case via the Veterninary Record journal, typical of the more open attitude demanded by the inquiry into the BSE disaster.
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New I'd be cremated at 5 y old, going to put my ashes in an ashtray, so when someone smokes, they will think I'm a comin' back!