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"hepped up"?

Shades of the 'fifties' when last I heard this term, from embryonic hippies then called beatniks....man those were some 'hep cats'....

Musings: Everyone is young once (if they survive the vicissitudes of this or lethal that) and then one day, voila' you're the elder.

Bummer man, said in the voice Chong.

My youngest Grands at 18 and 22 think (as once did I) youth, health etc. will last into perpetuity. The wonderful ignorance of youth....

If the world doesn't kill them first, they'll learn. By then of course I'll be long gone...ashes. I'm not taking up any real estate in a box barely 30" below the surface. What, you thought 6' is the standard depth? It's not. A funeral director pal appraised me of this fact. 6' under my patootie. 30" that's it.

While we're on this morbid subject: Only old people and some with religious views still bury the dead. Mostly the choice of carcass disposal is cremation. I got this from him too. Pomp and circumstance, flowers, preacher blowing, parades to the burial site, way, way old fashioned. Cremation, inexpensive (comparatively speaking) no service, no nothing. When it's my turn to be dead, no old fashioned super expensive body disposal for me and cost to my family. As an alternative burying in the backyard would be ok, done by relatives or neighbors. Dig a hole, throw in carcass. Done. Good fertilizer for the trees, but no, the funeral lobby won't have it. So, cremation. Cost: About 5% or less of standard issue disposal.