Serving Families in
The Cobram District
Since 1994
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 are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak
to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone; wear
no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes
we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever
the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without
the ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as
it ever was. There is absolutely unbroken continuity. What is death but a negligible
accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting
for you, for an interval, somewhere very near just around the corner … all is well.
Author - Canon Henry Scott Holland (1847—1918)
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