Hi Sabine,

Here are two pices which brought me some comfort when I lost both my step-mum and my father in law in one week.

'Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval
Somewhere very near, just around the corner,
All is well.'

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,

Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me
In the easy way in which you always used,
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow,

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together,
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever more a household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant: There is absolutely no unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligable accident.

My condolences to you

VBR Frank