A couple of years ago I was shopping at a local shopping centre when, having just got off the escalator, I was approached by a young man who asked "Excuse me, madam, can I ask if you've planned your funeral yet?". I almost told him he was close to having to plan his own if he continued to approach ladies of a certain age with a question like that, but instead I said "If I'm looking that old I must be having a bad day, and no, I haven't planned my funeral because I'm not going to have one", and walked away leaving him looking rather puzzled. Perhaps he thought my husband was planning to have me stuffed and sitting in an armchair a la Psycho! Imagine if he had asked the same question of someone who was, perhaps, seriously ill, it would have been extremely upsetting for them.