“Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.”

Expressing enduring presence through a consoling image of reunion · Sermon, Death the King of Terrors

• Death
• Hope
• Love

“Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity.”

Finding continuity and meaning amid the disruption of death · Sermon, Death the King of Terrors

• Death
• Hope
• Life

“Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name.”

Encouraging familiar remembrance instead of ceremonious grief · Sermon, Death the King of Terrors

• Death
• Love
• Memory

“Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so well together is untouched, unchanged.”

Affirming the continuity of identity and affection after bereavement · Sermon, Death the King of Terrors

• Death
• Love
• Memory

“Death is nothing at all. It matters not. I have only slipped away into the next room.”

Recasting death as a change of place rather than an end · Sermon, Death the King of Terrors

• Death
• Hope