Just came back from a funeral at our local church (lovely building inside - terrible photograph). I more and more think that you should sit down and write something that tells people what you want your funeral to be like. First off, if you don't do it, someone who is probably upset, will have to do it and will worry that they didn't get it right, and, second, they might well get it wrong, though of course you might not be bothered. I think the most important thing is not to have someone who knows nothing about you speaking platitudes which happened at my grandfather's funeral. Today someone read this piece which I suspect is a funeral cliche, but it is rather good, and I applaud the sentiment. It was described as "Prose" (and the URL has prose in it), but it seems to me to be a poem, so there may be som ecclesiastical meaning here I am missing.
