Senator Kennedy set a good example? Everyone has their opinion. The best way to follow in Senator Kennedy’s footsteps is to take a few hours and plan your Funeral.This can be done quite easily.Senator Kennedy put his basic plan in place before he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Senator Kennedy At his Funeral with Pres.Obama, wife Vicki

From CNN.COM

“Well, I will tell you about two and a half years ago, when Congressman Meehan decided that he was going to become the chancellor of UMass, we had a little delegation dinner at Legal Sea foods and Senator Kennedy was there and he was in good form, and at that time he laid out for us what the service and ceremony was going to be like,” Neal said in an interview Friday with Ed Henry and Mark Preston on CNN Radio’s “44 with Ed Henry.” “And I thought it was remarkable that the story held. None of us ever (thought) we should trespass on what he was saying that evening. And he talked about his legacy and what he had done, and he certainly raised the health care issue.”

It is best to put your funeral plan in place before you become terribly ill, or confront a catastrophic illness. The best way to do this is to take an hour to read “Rest in Peace Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral“

Reading the book should take about 1hr. Planning your funeral should take another hour.

Please Take time to do this now.

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President Obama let Kennedy Speak to Congress from grave via letter

President Barack Obama  let Senator Ted Kennedy speak from the grave on 9.09.09. This is the second time Kennedy spoke from the Grave.  First he spoke through a letter at a  Arlington grave side funeral service via letter to the Pope. 2nd he spoke in a letter given to Obama after his death. Portions of  that  letter were read during Obama’s speech before Congress on Tuesday night.

Here is what Obama said via the Huffington Post:

“I received one of those letters a few days ago. It was from our beloved friend and colleague, Ted Kennedy. He had written it back in May, shortly after he was told that his illness was terminal. He asked that it be delivered upon his death.

In it, he spoke about what a happy time his last months were, thanks to the love and support of family and friends, his wife, Vicki, and his children, who are here tonight . And he expressed confidence that this would be the year that health care reform – “that great unfinished business of our society,” he called it – would finally pass. He repeated the truth that health care is decisive for our future prosperity, but he also reminded me that “it concerns more than material things.” “What we face,” he wrote, “is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.”

This was indeed a sad thing. The President of the United States using a Senator  in the grave to sell his Health Care Plan.

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Will the Ted Kennedy|Funeral and Burial |be the end of the Summer of death? 1969 was the summer love. Will  Summer 2009 go down in history as the Summer of Death.?

Senator Tedd Kennedy was Buried at Arlington Nationall Cemerery on August 29th 2009

The Grim Reaper has been very busy this Summer pounding upon his computer keys.

Some of the most popular and well known folks left us in the summer of  death 2009. The Grim Reaper has been very busy this Summer pounding upon his computer keys.

Summer of Death Timeline:

08/28/09  DISC JOCKEY DJ AM FOUND DEAD IN NYC
08/26/09 CRIME STORY AUTHOR DOMINICK DUNNE, 83, DIES IN NYC

08/25/09 SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY DIES AT AGE 77
08/19/09 CBS NEWS PIONEER DON HEWITT DIES AT 86
08/18/09 POLITICAL COLUMNIST ROBERT NOVAK DIES AT 78

Senator Edward Kennedy Died August 25th 2009

08/13/09 CHARACTER ACTOR JOHN QUADE DIES AT 71
08/13/09 GUITAR LEGEND LES PAUL DIES AT AGE 94
08/11/09 JFK’S SISTER EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER DIES AT 88)
08/10/09 FOLK MUSIC REVIVALIST MIKE SEEGER DIES AT 75
08/06/09 ’80S TEEN FLICK DIRECTOR JOHN HUGHES DIES IN NYC
07/31/09 CORAZON AQUINO, PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT, DEAD AT 76
07/26/09 EX-BOXING CHAMPION FORREST KILLED AT 38
07/26/09 EX-’IDOL’ CONTESTANT COHEN STRUCK, KILLED BY CAR IN NJ)
07/22/09 TACO BELL AD STAR GIDGET THE CHIHUAHUA DIES AT 15
07/19/09 ‘ANGELA’S ASHES’ AUTHOR FRANK MCCOURT DIES IN NYC AT 78

07/17/09 LEGENDARY CBS ANCHOR WALTER CRONKITE DIES AT 92)
07/06/09 FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT MCNAMARA DIES

Grim Reaper has been busy in the Summer of 2009

07/04/09 REPORTS: EX-NFL QUARTERBACK STEVE MCNAIR SHOT DEAD
07/01/09 ] ‘ARE YOU BEING SERVED?’ STAR MOLLIE SUGDEN DIES AT 86
07/01/09 OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR KARL MALDEN DEAD AT 97
07/01/09 ACTOR HARVE PRESNELL DIES OF CANCER AT 75
07/01/09 BOXING HALL OF FAMER ALEXIS ARGUELLO FOUND DEAD
06/29/09 IMPRESSIONIST, VEGAS HEADLINER FRED TRAVALENA DIES
06/28/09 GALE STORM, STAR OF ’50S HIT TV SERIES, DIES AT 87
06/28/09 POLICE: TV PITCHMAN BILLY MAYS FOUND DEAD AT HOME
06/25/09 REPORTS: MICHAEL JACKSON DIES AT 50

Michatl Jackson Died 6.25.09

06/25/09 ‘CHARLIE’S ANGEL’ FARRAH FAWCETT DIES AT 62
06/23/09 [HIYOH!] ‘TONIGHT’ SIDEKICK ED MCMAHON DIES IN LA AT 86
06/13/09 CHRISTIAN ALBIN, ‘CULINARY RIP VAN WINKLE,’ DIES
06/04/09 ACTOR DAVID CARRADINE FOUND DEAD IN BANGKOK .

SURE LOOKS LIKE THE SUMMER OF DEATH TO ME.

Daddy Bush, Dan Rather and Jimmy Carter need to be Especially Care ful- for the next three weeks when Summer Officialy Ends!

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Here is the Full Funeral Program for the Ted Kennedy Funeral Mass.  This is not the Funeral Program that was given to the Congregation in the Mission Church in Boston.  It does  include great detail.

“Ted Kennedy Funeral Arrangments Released

10:05 a.m. – Extended Kennedy family arrives
10:10 a.m. – Distinguished visitors are seated
10:15 a.m. – The President, Vice President and former Presidents seated
10:20 a.m. – Mrs. Vicki Kennedy and Immediate Family arrive

Kennedy Brothers

Honorary pall bearers greet family outside church:

Melody Barnes
Honorable Justice Stephen Breyer
David Burke
Ranny Cooper
Greg Craig
Senator John C. Culver
Stephanie Cutter
Congressman William Delahunt
Senator Christopher J. Dodd
Ken Feinberg
Lee Fentress
Wyche Fowler
Tim Hanan
Claude Hooton
Dr. Larry Horowitz
Senator John F. Kerry
Paul G. Kirk, Jr.
Kathy Kruse
Nick Littlefield
Congressman Edward Markey
Eric Mogilnicki
Michael Myers
Carey Parker
Honorable Edmund Reggie
Senator Donald W. Riegle
Dr. Larry Ronan
Senator James Sasser
Robert Shrum
Barbara Souliotis
10:30 a.m. – Funeral Procession Begins

Entrance Hymn: “Holy God We Praise Thy Name”
Celebrants:

His Eminence Sean P. Cardinal O’Malley, OFM CAP, Archbishop of Boston.
Fr. J. Donald Monan, S.J., Chancellor, Boston College.

Guidance note: Former President of Boston College and Kennedy family friend. Fr. Monan is the principle celebrant of the funeral mass.

Fr. Gerry Creedon, Pastor, Saint Charles Borromeo Church, Arlington, Virginia.
Guidance note: Longtime Kennedy family friend and concelebrant of the funeral mass.

Fr. Percival D’ Silva, Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Kensington, Maryland.
Guidance note: Kennedy family friend and priest that performed the Blessed Sacraments for Caroline and Curran Raclin while at The Blessed Sacrament church in Northwes Washington, D.C. Fr. D’Silva is a concelebrant of the funeral mass.

Rev. Mark R. Hession, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville, Masssachusetts.
Guidance note: Senator and Mrs. Kennedy’s priest on Cape Cod and close friend. Fr. Hession offered mass for Senator Kennedy nearly every Sunday this year. Fr. Hession is a concelebrant of the funeral mass.

Rev. Donald MacMillian, Chaplain, Boston College.
Guidance note: Family friend, who frequently celebrated mass for Senator Kennedy. Concelebrant of funeral mass.

Very Rev. Raymond Collins, C.SS.R. Pastor, Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Pall bearers:

Kara Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy, Jr.
Patrick J. Kennedy
G. Curran Raclin, Jr.
Caroline R. Raclin
Caroline Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Christopher Lawford
Ed Michael Reggie
Bobby Shriver
Stephen E. Smith, Jr.
Immediate family:

Mrs. Victoria Kennedy
Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Kiki Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy, II
Kiley Kennedy
Kara Kennedy
Max Kennedy
Grace Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
Caroline Raclin
Curran Raclin
Edmund and Doris Reggie
Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith
William Kennedy Smith
Mrs. Ethel Kennedy
Honorary pall bearers  (see names above)
First Reading:

Curran Raclin, the Senator’s stepson
Old Testament
The Book of Wisdom 3:1-9
Responsorial Psalm:

Kara Kennedy
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 72
Second Reading:

Caroline Raclin, the Senator’s stepdaughter
New Testament, Letter of Paul to the Romans 8:31b-35, 37-39
Gospel:

Father Hession
Matthew 25:31-32A, 34-40
The Prayers of the Faithful:

(Guidance note: readers will be reading excerpts of the Senator’ own words)

Kiki Kennedy
Kiley Kennedy
Grace Allen
Max Allen
Jack Schlossberg
Robin Lawford
Kym Smith
Anthony Shriver
Rory Kennedy
Teddy M. Kennedy II
Liturgy of the Eucharist

Offertory: The Senator’s grandchildren

At Offertory:  J.S. BACH Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 6
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

At Communion:  FRANCK “Panis Angelicus”
Placido Domingo, tenor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
James David Christie, organ

BRAHMS  “Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee”
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
James David Christie, organ

SHUBERT “Ave Maria”
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
James David Christie, organ

Senator Edward Kennedy

Remembrances:   Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Eulogy:                   President Barack Obama

Final Commendation:  His Eminence Sean P. Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston

Recessional:                “America the Beautiful”

1:00 p.m. – Departure from church to Hanscom Air Force Base
1:30 p.m. – Departure from Hanscom Air Force Base to Andrews Air Force Base”

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Mission Church in Boston the place of the Edward Kennedy Funeral

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Program Source: http://www.tedkennedy.org/pages/arrangements

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Senator Edward Kennedy will be buried at Arlington National cemetery

Senator Ted “Edward”Kennedy Funeral update- There will be only Four of Five Living Presidents at the Ted Kennedy Funeral Mass on Saturday. Reports state that Bush 41, George H W Bush will not able to make the trip.

President Obama will give a eulogy at the Funeral

From blog.taragana.com

“A spokesman for Bush said Friday that he and his wife, Barbara, decided not to attend Kennedy’s funeral after learning their son, former President George W. Bush, would attend.

Jim McGrath says the 85-year-old Bush feels his son’s presence would “amply and well represent” the family Saturday.”

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