So, in the new category of #funeralreadings, my sister and I were adamantly nope on psalm 23 and some other psalm -...
So, in the new category of #funeralreadings, my sister and I were adamantly nope on psalm 23 and some other psalm - they're all god this and god that and omg fear death. Not my dad. My sister, who is knowing things, also pointed out that one of them was really in the context of a war anyway and thus questionable for funerals, really, even if it was always used out of context. So we are suggesting John Donne's: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. instead. Just that bit, though, obs, because the entirety of the essay from which it comes is rife with god this and church that. I mean, it's John Donne. But the meaning of ...