Scott Holland ( 1847 - 1918), gave the following remarks.
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I and you are you and the old life that we lived so fondly together untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way you always did.
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.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be exactly ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind, because I'm out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.
Excellent insight into this subject so long ago. It is believed by many that our dead are closer than we imagine, just in a different realm, sphere.
Sources : With permission - Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford
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