When Rabbi Moshe Feinstein died a crowd of 40,000 people came. Professor Jacob Katz said to Elie Wiesel, "You can say what you like about the heredim (ultra Orthodox) certainly know how to bury their gedolim."
Wiesel retorts, "Indeed they do. Even while they are still alive." -Rabbi Louis Jacobs
It is said that we idolize the dead fir their many real and imagined accomplishments. Think of how wonderful this lief would be if we did this while alive.
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