Wallace M. a., Amy

Amy Wallace has wondered for years why nobody seems to want to talk about death. Seems to her that - since death is something we all have to face, and we never know when - maybe it would be useful to think about it ahead of time, you know, when we're a little more relaxed about it. Amy grew up in the Boston area and went to college there, but New England just never felt like home. In 1975, at the suggestion of a friend who had moved from the East coast to San Francisco, she packed her belongings into her Ford Pinto and drove across the country. She's lived happily in the San Francisco Bay area...