Dealing with Death

"Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.

All is well"

Henry Scott Holland 1847-1918 Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral

When a loved One’s Gone

Those we love remain with us, For love itself lives on. And cherished memories Never fade because a loved one’s gone

Those we love can never Be more than a thought apart. For as long as there is memory They’ll live on in the heart.

You may find these useful to pass on to people who are dealing with recent bereavement