November 2025

In the early years of my ordained ministry one of the most popular poems requested at a funeral was; ‘Death is nothing at all’ by Professor Henry Scott Holland, Canon of St.Paul’s Cathedral London. It reads: 

Death is nothing at all.

It does not count.

I have only slipped away into the next room.

Nothing has happened.

Everything remains exactly as it was.

I am I, and you are you,

and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.

Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by the old familiar name...