~Death~

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• All who go.......Go to soon.

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Death is just the life's way

of telling you....

you're fired. 

                           (A. Torosian)

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• Death is the only bitch that never leaves you.

                                         (Ernest Hemingway)

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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 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 always 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 effort

Without the ghost of a shadow in it

Life means all that it ever meant

It is the same as it ever was

There is absolute unbroken continuity

What is death but a negligible accident?

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 around the corner

All is well.

Nothing is past; nothing is lost

One brief moment and all will be as it was before 

How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

(Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul 's Cathedral

Contributed by on the visitors to my site. She read this at her husband's funeral).

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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal.

Love leaves a memory no one can steal.

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Die and go above.

I'll always think of you my love.

If you're not there on Judgment Day,

I'll know you've gone the other way.

I'll give the angels back their wings,

golden harps and everything

Just to prove my love is true,

I'd die and go to hell for you.

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Don't grieve for me...for now I'm free.

I'm following the path God laid for me.

I took his hand when I heard his call,

I turned by back and left it all.

I could not stay another day, to love, to work or play.

Tasks left undone must stay that way.  

I've found that peace at the close of day.

If my parting has left a void,

the fill it with remembered joy, 

a love and friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss.

Ah yes, these things I too will miss.

Be not burdened with times of sorrow, 

I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.

My life's been full, I savored so much;

good friends, good times, a loved one's touch.

Don't lengthen it with undue grief.

God wanted me now, he set me free.

(This passage was sent in by a 12 year old girl 

named Juliann in memory of her Grandpa R.)

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Gentle clouds trace the sweep of your angel wing.

Your smile set the Heavens aglow.

Without you my world is dark and cold.

Shining Star, 

I wrap your memory around me

and continue on this path

to find you again.

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God looked around his garden

And he found an empty place

He then looked down upon the earth

And saw your tired face.

He put his arms around you

And lifted you to rest

God's garden must be beautiful

He always takes the best.

He knew that you were suffering

He knew you were in pain;

He knew that you would never

Get well on earth again.

He saw that the road was getting rough

And the hills are hard to climb,

So he closed your weary eyelids

And whispered "Peace be Thine."

It broke our hearts to lose you

But you didn't go alone

For part of us went with you

The day God called you home.

                                              (Dedication to Grandpa Ted)

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NEW !

Good friends are hard to find...

and now GOD has taken one of mine.

                                                  (sent in by Gil  in memory of his friend Ron who died in 2004)

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His Journey's Just Begun...

Don't think of him as gone away...

his journey's just begun,

life holds so many facets...

this earth is only one.

Just think of him as resting

from the sorrows and the tears

in a place of warmth and comfort

where there are no days and years.

Think how he must be wishing

that we could know today

how nothing but our sadness

can really pass away.

And think of him as living

in the hearts of those he touched....

for nothing loved is evenly lost...

and he was loved so much.

                                          (E. Brenneman)

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God saw you were getting tired

and a cure was not to be,

so he put his arms around you 

and whispered "Come to me...".

With tearful eyes we watched

and saw you pass away.

Although we love you dearly,

we couldn't make you stay.

A golden heart stopped beating,

hard working hands at rest.

God broke our hearts to prove to us,

He only takes the best.

(This poem was sent in by a visitor to my site...

in memory of Grandma Fran)

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If I should ever leave you

of whom I love to go along the Silent Way

grieve not,

nor speak of me with tears,

but laugh and talk of me

as if I were beside you there.

(I'd come - I'd come, could I but find a way !

But would not tears and grief be barriers ? )

And when you hear a song

or see a bird I loved,

please do not let the thought of me be sad...

For I am loving  you just as I always have.

You were so good to me !

There are so many things I wanted still to do;

so many things to say to you....

Remember that I did not fear....

It was just leaving you that was so hard to face.

We cannot see Beyond...

But this I know:

I loved you so...t'was Heaven here with you !

                                                                   ( Isla Paschal Richardson )

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If tears could build a stairway,

and memories a lane,

I'd walk right up to heaven

and bring you back again.

(sent in by a visitor to this site--this was a quote from her father's tombstone)

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Ma loved Pa

Pa loved Women

Here lays Pa.

(seen on a little tombstone)

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Never knock on Death's door.

Just ring the door and run.

He HATES that !!

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• Not gone....just gone ahead.

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Now that you are gone

Now that you are gone

I don't know what to do

I lay down and cry

All I could do is lie

Saying to myself that

You are still here

So I went and sat

To watch the adults

What I saw was my elders weeping

It was like a rainy day

With all the water seeping in

And so it may

Flood the house

But I wouldn't care

I feel like a mouse

Trapped in a corner

And no matter which way I turn

There is something there burning

Stopping my path out

So I just sit there and pout

While I am there thinking

I realize, it's my heart

It's the thing on fire

And keeping me from moving on

Cause I'm afraid once I leave

So will you, and it will become reality

Your really have gone.

(Submitted from a visitor to this site on 7/17/04, Meghan Lake, 

who wrote this poem in memory of her grandfather who she dearly loved)

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Perhaps they are not the stars,

but rather openings in Heaven

where the love of our lost ones

pours through and 

shines down upon us 

to let us know

they are happy.

                                                      (Inspired by an Eskimo legend)

**Note:  This passage was sent in by Cindy...who visited my site.  

She has a special tribute to her daughter Jessi.  

Please visit her tribute page.

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Remember friends as you pass by, 

As you are now so once was I. 

As low as I you once must be, 

Prepare yourself and follow me.

                                    (written on a tombstone)

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To those of you who know him,

and the gracefulness of his touch;

can only make us realize,

the gift of a smile can mean so much.

Though he is absent from us in body,

and has left behind a space;

we can only hope he is at rest finally

with the spirit of GOD, in a better place.

Let us then in love advise those left to remain,

still searching for a clue,

put GOD first and remember your families,

for things like this can happen to you.

                                                           (printed in my local newspaper 11-28-02)

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UNTIL WE MEET

Weep not for this empty vessel of clay.

Let your tears be tears of joy,

for at last I am away.

Free of the mortal cage

that had bound me here.

Walking with my Savior now,

and with my loved ones dear.

Remember me with a smile upon my face,

For now I'm smiling always, 

in this most glorious place.

I walk and talk and smile

without a worry or a care.

I wait for you in heaven.

BE THERE !!

( by Lillian Carol Russell--written for the funeral services

for her dear friend Georgia Fulda )

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Where have you gone since yesterday

and left us lonely here ?

Today you seem so far away

when yesterday you were near.

No maps of ours that we use

your journey can we trace.

We only know you've reached your home

and see the Fathers face.

                                            (Author Unknown)

(This was sent in by a visitor to this site who said this

passage was sent to their family when their mom passed away)

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You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.  

The only thing behind a hearse is family and friends, and that's what matters most.

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updated 4/17/09

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