Writer's Block: R.I.P

[xiphias]

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Take any parts that anybody can use, and use 'em. Take the rest, put it in a kittel, and have someone sit with the body reciting psalms. Ideally, someone who knows me and wants to do that, and would find it comforting to do so. That probably means having my body wrapped in a shroud BESIDES being in a kittel, because, having removed any and all useful bits, I expect the remainder wouldn't be very pretty -- no embalming, no neatening up my corpse, so just wrap it up so that it's not disturbing to anyone.

Quickly get the word out that I'm dead, so that anyone who wants to be there can hear about it and get to the funeral, then put the remains in as cheap a pine box as possible. Bury it in a Jewish cemetery with a fairly traditional ceremony, and then, hopefully, I'll have lived a life such that some people will be moved to say kaddish for me over the next eleven months.

Comments

[asqmh.livejournal.com]

Let's hope the day doesn't come anytime soon.

However, despite my being non-Jewish, I have been known to recite kaddish in memory of others. Not in the congregation, obviously, but more as a personal observance. If it wouldn't offend you, there'd be a pudgy red headed gentile pastor saying it in your memory as well.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Of course it wouldn't offend me. Saying kaddish is for the people who are alive, not the people who are dead.

[asqmh.livejournal.com]

I was unclear. I meant if the idea of my eventually reciting it wouldn't offend you currently. ^_^