Accompany with singing each mortal life's remains, processing to the graveside or to the cleansing flames. Turn not away from sorrow when death comes, as it must, but shepherd every person whose dust returns to dust. We shall not, then, assemble, mortality denied by banishing the body whose life and breath have died. With all the saints around us we'll face the great unknown. Surrounding death with singing we'll pray each pilgrim home. Since flesh and blood must perish and utterly demise we'll tend the dead and dying and not avert our eyes. In hope of resurrection (to Christ our hearts belong) we'll consecrate life's ending with Scripture, prayer and song. On suitable occasions the following may be spoken solo or by a group - but probably not sung - between stanzas one and two: Let no-one's flesh, in private, be bundled to its plot or trundled to an oven behind a parking lot. As children tend and treasure a fading autumn leaf, befriend each life departing with public works of grief.