"THE DEAD ARE WELL" (Antony & Cleopatra)

.....If you haven't heard by now, my brother-in-law, Mickey, has died. Funeral services will be held in the Veterans' section of the Eternal Light Cemetery on Monday morning.  There was a three line notice in the obit section of the paper today.  There are four of Mickey's kids here and you would think they would at least recognize him as a WWII veteran with a Purple Heart.  How much more could it cost?  Anyway, I would expect to see Mary Gurien, Sally Forman, and Sonny Weinstein at the funeral on Monday. Mickey will be buried right across the street from where my mother was buried.  I wonder if there will at least be a military funeral for him. It doesn't cost anything.  Oh, if you only knew how difficult this was to type this and correct all the errors, besides the sad content involved.  Unfortunately, I cannot shake the memory of at least 100 funeral services many years ago.
.....The line of the title to this post is spoken by Cleopatra; the meaning is that the dead are well out of the world's suffering...or, if you prefer, the dead are well and in heaven.  The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind; the answer is blowin' in the wind.