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poems for funerals

The Cost

Death is not too high a price to pay for having lived. Mountains never die, nor do the seas or rocks or endless sky. Through countless centuries of time, they stay eternal, deathless. Yet they never live! If choice there were, I would not hesitate to choose mortality. Whatever Fate demanded in return for life [...]

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Funeral Blues

This is probably the best known of modern poems for funerals and sums up why they are such a blessing when your own words are too hard to find.

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Funeral Traditions

The one thing that is certain in life is death.  Naturally, this means that at some point in the course of our lives, we will be faced with the death of someone we care about.  At these times, along with the sadness and grief, we have to make funeral arrangements.  Funerals are a part of [...]

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Poems For Funerals – Expressing Your Feelings

It’s often very difficult to express your feelings about death publicly – especially a long time after the event.  This video was a perfect way for me.  Whilst it isn’t perhaps the traditional way of using poems for funerals, it helped me to deal with a grief that still occasionally catches up with me.

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Poems For Funerals – Say What You Want

Death, Dying and Funerals are subjects that no one seems to want to talk about.  They shy away from the subject as if it was taboo.  Well, it’s not and it can’t be.  It is a fact of life.  We will all have to deal with it in some way at some point in our [...]

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Poems For Funerals

Poems for Funerals are a brilliant way of expressing your feelings about the person you have lost because they are very personal things – but where do you start to write one. It is so daunting when you have a blank piece of paper in front of you and you don’t know where to start. [...]

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