[Cz-L] The banality of death

In old Czernowitz there was an old Yiddish saying applied after
the announcement of someone's ( not closely related) passing away :

" Gestorbn, bagrubn , af jener Welt wi gefinen ".

That is : " Died, buried , in the other world as newly found"..
  People used it without really getting the meaning or humor - if any.
  Very very old saying .
    Sheer nonsense.
   Not Holocaust related,

Hardy
 

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