Do not mourn for me, better you should laugh and forget, than be sad.
Christina Rossetti.
This quotation is also used in advertisements for bereavement counselling services, paid for or free.
I am not gone, only sleeping in the next room.
Sadness is the price we pay for love.
To the world they were one person, but to one person they were the world.
Stonemasons and funeral directors who supply thank you cards for condolences have lots of quotations you can choose to put on thank you cards, mostly rhyming poems.
These poems can also be used in funeral notices in newspaper and on gravestones.
Religious ceremonies can use quotations from the holy books, such as the bible, Old Testament, New Testament, and from other religions.
Those organising Humanist and secular funerals can choose poems of a spiritual or optimistic nature, about the memory of love, of nature, the wheel of life and life going on.
A funeral official can offer you a choice of poems.
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About The Author
Angela Lansbury B A Hons
Author of:
Quick Quotations (Lulu.com)
Who Said What When (Lulu.com)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts (Ward Lock/Cassell)
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