Originally Posted by
ArcSine
My sincere condolences, all....
I just came across this thread by happenstance a bit ago, and I was deeply saddened to follow the chain of events that were painfully chronicled herein. Please accept my heartfelt sympathies, as I know how difficult this loss is, for those left behind.
If I may, I offer the following words from Henry Scott Holland. They've served me well in the past; not as an empty platitude, but as a gentle reminder that our limited 'field of view' is only a small part of a much larger picture.
And again, my sincerest sympathies to you all, and to her family.
Death is nothing at all; I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am still I, and you are still you; whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name; speak to me in the easy manner which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone; do not wear a forced air of sorrow or solemnity.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play... smile... think of me; play for me.
Let my name be 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 absolutely unbroken continuity.
I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well.
