1.
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 are still
2.
Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in
the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone; wear no
forced air of solemnity or sorrow
3.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes
we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
4.
Let my name be ever the household word that it
always was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow on
it.
5.
Life means all that it ever means. It is the
same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity
6.
What is this death but
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