Issy has just passed away and his wife Rifka goes to the mortuary. As soon as she sees him she starts crying. An attendant tries to comfort her. Through her tears Rifka explains that Issy is wearing a black suit and he always wanted to be buried in a blue suit. The attendant explains that they always put the bodies in a black suit as standard procedure, but he’d see what he could do.
The next day, when Rifka returns to the mortuary to have one last moment with Issy, she smiles through her tears – Issy is now wearing a blue suit.
She asks the attendant, “How did you manage to get hold of that nice blue suit?”
“Well, yesterday, after you left, a man about your husband’s size was brought in and he was wearing a blue suit. His wife was very upset as he had always wanted to be buried in a black suit,” the attendant replied. “After that, it was simply a matter of swapping the heads around.”
Credit: David Minkoff, A Word In Your Eye