The Possibly Proper Death Litany

I have brought to you a prayer from the far future, written by science fiction author Roger Zelazny. He posited a very distant future in which people were still concerned that they be on good relations with whatever might exist, but they had gotten ever more careful about deciding what that might -- or might not -- be.

It is an interesting commentary on our own pluralistic times, when all beliefs are equally valid, equally true, equally false, equally uncertain.

"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to ensure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to ensure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your
elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be
yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this
benefit, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen."

(from
Creatures of Light and Darkness, Avon, 1986)