The ceremony is conducted by a humanist celebrant and it is both a celebration of a life and a dignified, personal farewell. After meeting you and talking to you about the person who has died, a humanist celebrant will be able to suggest something absolutely perfect and suited to the person you want to remember.Ī humanist funeral is a non-religious ceremony that focuses on the person who has died, the life they led, and the relationships they forged. You don’t have to dig around in a library to find the perfect poem. World Poetry Day: The Dash - Poem by Linda Ellis - Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust Poetry can often play an important role within the grief process. It’s also easy to incorporate poems where there is some mention of religious concepts into a humanist funeral, especially if the poet or the poem itself is significant to the deceased or how they lived.ĭon’t worry. If you’re planning a non-religious funeral, you’ll find that very little poetry about death is deeply religious in character. The canon of beautiful poetry about death is especially vast and humanist authors make up only part of it – although a big part of it. Discovering them and sharing them can bring us joy, solace, and emotional relief. The humanist Sigmund Freud once remarked when discussing psychology that ‘Everywhere I go, I find that a poet has been there before me.’ Great writers over centuries have captured thoughts, ideas, and feelings we thought inexpressible, or unique to our lives, and made them beautiful and memorable. ‘Just talk amongst yourself my friends, And share a toast or two.’ Where else can I look for poetry?Įnglish poetry offers such a rich source of consolation when confronting death. For it matters not, how much we own, The cars.the house.the cash. Oh dear, if you’re reading this right now, Would you be proud of the things they say He noted that first came the date of birth He referred to the dates on the tombstone Of happy memories that I leave when life is done. We make note of the year that the person was born and the year they died, which really say. The poem is based on the simple idea of how we view a tombstone, an obituary or death notice. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun Linda Ellis, wrote the poem The Dash in an afternoon, and it changed her life forever. Hopefully you have surrounded yourself with people who love you and add. Who you spend your dash with determines a lot of how you live during your life and your level of happiness. A dash filled with moments of love and people to reciprocate love is the happiest dash of all.
Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. Love is the most public secret known to man. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Sheila Burke, who served with Dole for 20. Dole died in his sleep Sunday morning at age 98. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. asks Linda Ellis' poem 'The Dash,' which was read at former Kansas U.S. I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voiceīut be the usual selves that I have known ‘Death (If I Should Go)’ by Joyce Grenfell
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