Her head was in one piece that day and she even started making plans
  for the future, because she didn't want a religious funeral. At
  first I thought the Jewess was afraid of God and figured she could
  keep out of His clutches by getting herself buried without
  religion. It wasn't that at all. She wasn't afraid of God, but she
  said it was too late, what was done was done, and there was no point
  in His coming around to apologize to her.
               -- Momo, Emile Ajar