Death is nothing
at all, I have only slipped away into the next door 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 usual
way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone,
wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrows. 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 the household word
that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without the
ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all it ever meant, it is the
same as it ever was, there is absolutely unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind, because I am out of sight? I am but
waiting for you, for in the interval. Somewhere very near just
around the corner...All is well