At My Funeral

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -Albus Dumbledore

Spirit In the Sky - Norman Greenbaum

(Featured at the beginning of the last HP book)
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pur. This is the comfort of friends, that thought they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in teh best sense, ever present, because immortal. -William Penn, More Fruits of Solitude


Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf

Birth is a beginning
And death a destination
And life is a journey
From childhood to maturity
And youth to age;
From innocence to awareness
And ignorance to knowing;
From foolishness to discretion
And then, perhaps, to wisdom;
From weakness to strength,
Or strength to weakness -
And, often, back again;
From offense to forgiveness.
From loneliness to love,
From joy to gratitude
From pain to compassion,
and grief to understanding -
From fear to faith;
From defeat to defeat -
Until, looking backward or ahead,
We see that victory lies
Not at some high place along the way,
But in having made the journey,
Stage by stage,
A sacred pilgrimage.
Birth is a beginning
And death a destination.
And life is a journey,
A sacred pilgrimage -
To life everlasting.
-Reform Judaism Prayer Book