The Living Table Grief, Names, and What We Do While We Are Here J.T. Burger The question usually arrives after someone is gone, or while they are still in the other room. Was it worth it. Not the funeral. The life. The Living Table is part two of The Hour Remains. It is a quiet book about grief, about names, and about what we do while we are here. Not a map of heaven. A second chair. A plate. The sense that we were never meant to finish this weather alone. You do not have to solve death tonight. Say a name. Let someone sit down. The universe is us.