I have enclosed our CC Eulogy:
"Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped
away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains
exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life we lived so
fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each
other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me
in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at
the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me,
pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon
it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death, but a
negligible accident? 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 around the corner... All is well."
On a personal note, I would like to sincerely thank Yancy. In the waning months, as the cancer spread and we knew it was a matter of time, Yancy kindly honored Leo with a video. Leo had long admired Yancy's unique perspective, and this gesture deeply touched him...perhaps even eased the pain for a time.
May God bless and watch over Leo's family.
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