sounds interesting.. one of our family stories, is about an elderly cousin, Annie, who died aged 93, in the mid 1980's. as a young girl, she wanted to be a doctor. but as the daughter of irish immigrants, she had neither the money nor the connections to make it happen.. she settled, reluctantly, on nursing. She attended nursing school at NY Bellevue hospital. she keep up with alumni newletters, and read that there was a shortage of cadavers.. so, when she died, she finally got to go to medical school! she never got past anatomy.. but fugal to the end, part of the deal was that the school paid for her burial afterwards.
her memoral service and wake was a grand one.. not often a funeral is also a commencement cerimony too! (one of her kids (age 60 or so) was a bit embarassed at first.. but she was always the most conservation one in the bunch, the rest of the family thought it par for the course for Annie.
