One of the most eloquent was written by the Reverend Henry Scott Holland, Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, and delivered at Evensong on 15 May. A soul-stirring meditation on loss, one part of it in particular has endured. Imagining what the deceased might say to those he or she had left behind, Scott Holland speculated that it might be ‘Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.’
