Stormy Weather
Nov. 27th, 2024 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Damian and Louis are tearing up our kitchen. Yesterday they were using a jackhammer so we got out of the house and ran errands and took ourselves over to Seaford for lunch. Ailz is going to Polegate for a Quaker trustees meeting today and I thought I'd go into town and buy books- but the stormy weather is back and I may just retire to the top of the house.
I've been asked to write and deliver a short funeral tribute to Keith. Quakers have no fixed doctrines regarding death and the afterlife (or anything else for that matter) so I'll be keeping it factual and this-worldly. Keith himself seems to have believed in reincarnation (he chose Johnny Cash singing The Highwayman as the music to be played as we leave the chapel) but the Friends in attendance will have attitudes ranging from "death is just stepping into the next room" to "once you're dead you're dead". Will there be non-Quakers there? We really don't know. Keith had friends outside the Society but no relevant family- apart from an ex-wife who is far-gone in dementia and living in a care home in Llandudno. I did many, many funerals when I was a vicar but never one- that I can remember- where there was no identifiable chief mourner.
I've been asked to write and deliver a short funeral tribute to Keith. Quakers have no fixed doctrines regarding death and the afterlife (or anything else for that matter) so I'll be keeping it factual and this-worldly. Keith himself seems to have believed in reincarnation (he chose Johnny Cash singing The Highwayman as the music to be played as we leave the chapel) but the Friends in attendance will have attitudes ranging from "death is just stepping into the next room" to "once you're dead you're dead". Will there be non-Quakers there? We really don't know. Keith had friends outside the Society but no relevant family- apart from an ex-wife who is far-gone in dementia and living in a care home in Llandudno. I did many, many funerals when I was a vicar but never one- that I can remember- where there was no identifiable chief mourner.
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Date: 2024-11-27 04:37 pm (UTC)I want to believe to the next room, but I will don't know if it was true if you're dead then you're dead. Did you know my name in the next room?
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Date: 2024-11-28 06:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-28 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-28 06:23 pm (UTC)People who've "died" and come back say that their experience out of the body was incredibly vivid and that, by comparison, everyday life seems like a dream.
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Date: 2024-11-28 07:34 pm (UTC)