My friend Dirck's words after his friend's death made me think I'd like someone to write this about me when I die:

Some of you may have known Joe, others of you only knew of him. In the shower this morning, I took an inventory of the years I've known him and was grateful to observe that we somehow managed to resolve all conflicts and old hurts before he went. We spent ten years together and another ten learning how to become friends. We shared much including two now-grown boys, Braden and Glenn, who are each married and have children of their own. I always wondered which of us would go first. Now I know. He still holds, and always will hold, a very special place in my heart. I'm glad that he heard me tell him this many times before he passed. And I heard the same from him.