[Evans, Marv]

You gentlemen are lucky to experience good relationships with your dads/parents/family. Both my parents passed years ago. Our environment growing up (me & two sisters) was like an emotional desert, where our parents fed & clothed us but much beyond that - pretty much nothing. One of their favorite sayings was the one that children were to be seen and not heard. My little sister, the last to leave, experienced a pretty negative environment. I used to wonder that friends' parents actually treated their kids a real people when I was at their houses as a kid. So even though things probably haven't always been perfect, be glad you had the relationships. I will say something about the "end of life reality." When you yourself arrive at that zone, it becomes a rather interesting situation. I've been slow to make my end of life arrangements, but will probably complete that this month or next. It's kind of a "taking care of business" kind of thing. I never had children, so I don't have to worry about that. But I can only say you go through life sometimes putting things off because you have time ahead of you. It's an odd feeling to arrive at that point where you begin to understand you likely don't have that luxury anymore.