Readings, Psalms & Prayers

All these Psalms and Prayers can be found in most Crematorium Service Books or Common Prayer Books & Non Religious items from a very good booklet published by the British Humanist Association entitled "Funerals Without God" or you can contact me.

This is one of the best known and most widely used readings.

All is Well
by Henry Scott-Holland.



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 still are.
Call me by my old familiar name,
speak to me in the easy way 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 and if you want to, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,
let it be spoken without effect,
without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was;
there is unbroken continuity.
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.


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Other well known & suitable pieces that can be used at a Funeral Ceremony

23rd Psalm - The Lord Is My Shepherd.

Questions From A Worker Who Reads - by Bertolt Brecht.

Corinthians I - Chapter 13.

Suitable Verses from Psalm 103 - The Lord Is Full of Compassion and Mercy.

Footprints.

Psalm 121 - I lift up my eyes to the hills.

John 6. 37-40 All that the Father gives me will come to me.

Psalm 90 -Lord You Have been Our Refuge.

If by Rudyard Kipling.

John 14. 1-6, 27 Let not your hearts be troubled.

Desiderata by Emerson Clymer.

For The Fallen(Sept 1914) - Laurence Binyon.

The Lord's Prayer.

Prayer of Thanks.

Romans 14. 7-12 No one of us lives, and equally no one of us dies.

Romans 8. 18,28,35 & 37 -39 I consider that the sufferings of this present time etc.

A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies - W.E. Henley.

Revelation 21. 1-4 & 22. 3-5 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.

Look To This Day - Sanskrit Text.



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