I have always, always loved "may her memory be a blessing" as the formal phrase for the dead. It's a loving and pragmatic tribute to the dead -- not a promise of a future afterlife, but a reference to the afterlife that is assured, the one in living memory.
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Date: 2009-02-11 04:19 pm (UTC)I have always, always loved "may her memory be a blessing" as the formal phrase for the dead. It's a loving and pragmatic tribute to the dead -- not a promise of a future afterlife, but a reference to the afterlife that is assured, the one in living memory.