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110. Engraving part 1: Epitaph

The Allusionist

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You Have a Year to Come Up With the Epitaph

"It feels lazy like this lazy send-off that a lot of people give and they just kind of throw their hands up in the air," he says. "Maybe this is really a thing that you should sort out before you die." For non-Jews, Jews have a year to come up with an epitaph; for my grandmother, it was too hard because there were so many relatives who would agree on something.

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