| 1 | The earth devours its dead. | |
| 2 | Let the dead have the immortality of fame,but the living the immortality of love. | |
| 3 | Much of the speech was dedicated to its core function: to commemorate the dead and comfort those in mourning. | |
| 4 | And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching. | |
| 5 | Funerals should not only serve to memorialize the dead, but also to give hope to those they`ve left behind. |