The Light Beyond

Soothe your soul with this unique collection of over 250 of the world's best funeral poems, quotations and readings

Look no further. You have just found the most comprehensive and thoughtful book of sympathy poems, quotes and readings available, with the insights of many of the world's finest authors on life, love and loss. You need never be lost for words again...

You may well have been called upon to write a eulogy or speak at a funeral at very short notice, leaving little time to find a suitable poem or reading, so our easily navigable book is available for instant download. Whoever you have lost, this book contains the perfect words to help you express your sorrow, pay tribute to your loved one and do justice to a life lived.

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Accepting the universe...

The laws of life and death are as they should be; and if death ends my consciousness, still is death good. I have had life on those terms, and somewhere, somehow, the course of nature is justified.

I shall not be imprisoned in some grave where you are to bury my remains. I shall be diffused in great nature: in the soil, in the air, in the water and sunshine, and in the hearts of those who love me, in all the living and flowing currents of the world, though I may never again in my entirety be embodied in a single human being. My elements and my forces go back into the original sources out of which they came, and these sources are perennial in this vast, wonderful, divine cosmos.

John Burroughs (1837-1921)

This is another wonderful funeral reading taken from
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep, our book of over 250 poems, quotations and readings for funerals, memorial services, eulogies and inner peace, which contains both religious and secular poems and readings.

Desperate Housewives brings famous funeral poem Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep to a larger audience

Did you know that the famous funeral poem Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep was recently recited by character Mrs. McCluskey in the American television drama Desperate Housewives, episode "Welcome to Kanagawa", first airing on the ABC network January 6, 2008? The modified version is used just before another drama character, Lynette, scatters the ashes of Ida Greenberg on the baseball field where Ida had executed a triple play as a women's professional ballplayer. That version follows:

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints of snow. I am the sunlight in ripened grain I am the gentle autumn’s rain Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I did not die

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Green burials: a new alternative

Green burial is catching on as a relatively new alternative for people who are concerned about the environmental impacts of a traditional burial. In a green burial, the body is placed in a casket made of cardboard or other biodegradable materials, or simply wrapped in a shroud, and then laid to rest in a park or woodland known as a natural burial ground or eco-cemetery. Natural burial grounds generally feature trees or flat stones as grave markers, rather than granite or marble monuments. There are no embalming fluids, metal-and-plastic caskets, or concrete vaults in green burials; thus, they are generally less expensive than traditional burials. For more information, visit www.greenburials.org.