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Originally Posted by Jen
It brings up an interesting question about preserving a ritual - how would an organization do that if there was only a handful of surviving members?
What if it was your group? Your 98, on your death bed, and the last person who knows the rituals of your organization. Would you want those secrets to die with you, or would you write them down, in hopes one day someone might attempt to revive your organization?
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Delta Sigma Theta has hundreds of thousands of collegiate and alumnae members and will not be defunct until the world explodes.
So, I'll try to put myself in the position of an organization that is less awesome than DST:
Is this a defunct organization that is expected to die with its last member? Were we not bringing in new members for a few years? Did we not plan ahead for this stuff? If so then I would expect it to die with its last member.
On another note, almost all rituals are written at some point, even the things that are never supposed to be written down. If I have organizational documents and don't give instructions on what to do with those remnants after I die, I would expect my family to shred the documents. What else is there to do with these documents? If someone ever hears about my organization and wants to bring it back to life, they will have to find whatever they find on their own and essentially re-found and re-invent everything.
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