# Funeral subcommittee while still healthy

- Teacher: Ajahn Brahm
- Type: Story
- URL: https://beingmindfulstories.com/stories/brahm-funeral-subcommittee-while-healthy
- Themes: death, humour, Buddhist society, aging
- Life situations: aging, planning

## Synopsis (editorial summary)

Buddhist society starts a subcommittee for his funeral arrangements while he feels fine — he reframes age as 900 months and wants a celebration, not fear.

## The story, as told by Ajahn Brahm (verbatim captions)

arrange uh how to do my funeral service [laughter] and I feel so healthy honestly. So some people say well why do you do that for? Why not 75 soon or I called it 900? 900 is much more fun. 900 months old. And because as a it's weird as a Buddhist, ever since I was a young monk, you were never afraid of death. We're going to go one day. Let's make it a very big celebration

## Teaching point

Plan the celebration before you need the coffin.

## Reflection (in the spirit of Ajahn Brahm's talk)

His Buddhist society formed a committee to plan his funeral while Ajahn Brahm was perfectly healthy. He didn't mind. Call his age nine hundred months, he says; it's more fun. Monks aren't afraid of death, so make it a celebration. He has no will because he owns nothing. Plan kindly, and fear less.

## Source

- [Living a Happy and Peaceful Life | Ajahn Brahm | 10 July 2026](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_17-u_j6w9Q) (Buddhist Society of Western Australia) — watch from 2:00 to 2:53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_17-u_j6w9Q&t=120s