There is a well-kept secret in our Jewish tradition. The period of aninut – the time from a person’s last breath until the covering of their grave – actually belongs to the dead, not to the living. What are the implications of this? What are the practical implications of the realisation that our funerals are our property, are our possession – not the mourners, not the community, not the institutions and the establishment – they belong to the dead? In this talk, Mimi Feigelson casts the funeral as a sacred drama, and challenges us to become the playwright of this drama. She asks us to claim our lives in their totality, in the understanding that, if you know how you want to be buried, you know how you want to live.

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