Call
He who was living is now dead
T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
Ecclesiastes
and Response
Until I’m 6 feet under
Bon Jovi – I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Baby I don’t need a bed
Gonna live while I’m alive
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Till they roll me over
And lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I’m alive
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
John Donne – Death, be not proud
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
…
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Thomas Gooding (c.1600, a mason of Norwich Cathedral) was buried vertically inside the Cathedral so that he could spring up and be first into heaven…
Find a Grave / Atlas Obscura

Remember death for you must dye.
As you are now even so was I
And as I am so shall you be.
Thomas Gooding here do staye
Wayting for God’s judgement day
Photo: Stu Patience
RIP S.W.
Great photo … making good use of that camera phone!