New Career

After this, I think I will retire from the law and start a new industry. One can find consultants for all sorts of things, I shall become a Death Consultant (must think of a better name). Weddings are really quite easy to plan ... all you need to do is ensure that the bridesmaids don't clash with the bride, and that none of the extended family members who wish to kill each other are seated at the same table.

Post-Mortem consultants (still not quite right) have so much more to do. We would create order out of the disorder of paperwork... draft obit, cancel subscriptions, contact alumni associations to place obit, take clothes to the appropriate charity, send out hundreds of email notices to friends and family around the world, ensure that the bereaved spouse and the equally bereaved mistress do not wear clashing colours of black... the duties are seemingly endless. All this and more ... for a small fee, of course.

I rather suspect that by the end of this, I will be fervently wishing that my parents had been congenital hermits.

Surreal moment of the day: The funeral director asking what type of law I practise, and when I answered, him breaking into a long, passionate, and completely inappropriate diatribe on his own divorce, how he self-repped, everyone was against him, but he sued opposing counsel, and sued the court, and sued ..., then he won custody of the children and scared all the lawyers in the area from taking his ex's case, and didn't I think that the courts were all biased and ...