With a sweet smile on his face and a cheerful lilt in his voice, Milt Seif hands over a 14-page typewritten eulogy he has written. It is his own. He will be 91 in two weeks and has no plans for departing. But he knows the curtain eventually descends on everyone, and he wants to make certain somebody gets the details straight.

He is irrepressible. He’s been through surgery “on every part of my body.” This includes heart surgery and knee surgery and the amputation of a leg from diabetes a few years ago that caused him to stop playing handball at the Jewish Community Center in northwest Baltimore. This was a pity, since he was only 87.