I am just finishing up Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead and I find the concept of the humanistic-and I use the term very loosely-religion represented by Ender in his position of speaker for the dead. From wikipedia 'Speakers research the dead person's life and give a speech that attempts to speak for them, describing the person's life as he or she tried to live it. This speech is not an apology, but rather a way to understand the person as a whole, including any flaws or misdeeds.' I can't decide if I have the courage to want someone to speak my death or if I could actually speak others' but I find the concept, along with several others from the book, wholly intriguing. I suppose these questions are moot as there is no framework for one to become a speaker for the dead and there is likely not going to be one. Maybe I'll get lucky and this will change.
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