Writer's Block: R.I.P

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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

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Let not the day come too soon.

As for me, you may take any parts anyone may wish to use. Take the whole carcass and give it to medical students to dissect. Dispose of the rest as seems best to you. I won't notice or care. I won't be there.

However, since people like some direction at this time of like: corrugated cardboard box to the crematorium. No viewing of the corpse or wake (never could stand that custom). Family and friends can gather together for a sendoff, and scatter my ashes in the Atlantic. The second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony would be nice.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I'll have lived a life such that some people will be moved to say kaddish for me over the next eleven months.

If you predecease me, and I haven't learned the prayer by then, I will.

[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.