Last summer Pma Tregenza of Santa Barbara sent me a lovely poster inscribed with the Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in England. I had heard the Canon recited at memorial services and was glad to have a copy. The Canon was written by Henry Scott Holland who lived from 1847-1918.
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 still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.