A great book and thinking of the future

Sometimes you run into a great book and I just finished reading "Biblical Literacy" by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. Some five hundred pages but very readable and very enjoyable. Never knew that Sarah is the only woman in the Bible whose age at death is recorded (127). Probably because even then no woman wanted it to be known how old she was at death. Sarah might well have been 147 but along the way she knocked off a few years. Grief stricken, like most husbands at this point, he wastes a fortune for a burial plot. I finished the book this morning at 2 a.m. and now I am drinking coffee to save the rest of the day. I asked Mr. Seligman to do my funeral when the time comes. I hope he remembers. Yes, you have my permission. Knock off a few years from my real age. I would enjoy that. "And here we lay to rest Mrs. Beerstein who had just turned forty yesterday but died of old age." No autopsy please, no organ transplant, none of that. I need all my parts at the resurrection. I don't want to run around trying to find these things. I wear glasses, remember? I would not find half of my parts without glasses anyway.