Kierkegaard - Works of Love Part 2 Chapter 9

The Work of Love in Remembering One Dead

Loving someone who is dead is prescribed as a method of testing or verifying one's ability to love when nothing is gained in return and there is no possibility to blame the dead person for why your love is not 100% faithful.

It is a strange chapter, but I can't help thinking ( three weeks before Easter ) that Kierkegaard is alluding to the fact that Chris did die, and this "practice" should help expose our difficulty in loving one who is dead and gone from this earth.