\'To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.\' In recent years Non-Religious funerals have become more common, but without an established canon of readings to fall back on, it can be difficult to plan an appropriate service for a loved one who had no religious belief or connections.
This book will be suitable for anybody planning the Funeral of a loved one, or for officiants at Secular humanist funerals..
Instead, the readings offer a positive philosophical approach to death, and a celebration of the life and memory of the departed.
They retain the solemnity, grandeur and dignity of the traditional language of Christian funerals found in the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, but make no dogmatic references to religion, the supernatural or life after death; beliefs which many today do not or cannot hold.
This book, however, provides opening sentences, readings, and sentences for committal and/or dispersal from some of the greatest philosophers and writers in history including Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Christina Rossetti, Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore.
Readings recommended by Secular humanists, especially modern texts, can sometimes sound trite or overly informal. \'To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.\' In recent years Non-Religious funerals have become more common, but without an established canon of readings to fall back on, it can be difficult to plan an appropriate service for a loved one who had no religious belief or connections
