The Sect (The Craig Crime Series) - Plot & Excerpts
Northern Irish funerals are rarely cheerful affairs, even when the deceased has suffered illness and death is a longed for end. There are few, if any, happy hymns sung, and bands playing and handclapping are definitely not de rigeur. Rather, such occasions smack of restraint and lengthy silences, hushed tones and solemn, Minor chords; interrupted only by tears being sobbed in a dignified way. Philosophers speak of death as a happy release and clerics substitute blessed for happy and nod in an equally sanguine way, but who is it happy or blessed for? Do the dead see their expensive caskets and their mourners’ ceremonial black? Do they listen as they are eulogised, or even mythologised at times? Do they read their own obituaries or hear the prayers of loved ones wishing that they hadn’t gone; are they watching from some recess in the organ loft or wrapping their arms around the bereaved to ease their pain? Perhaps. Or perhaps the dead are dead from the moment their last breath hits the air and their pupils widen and fix ahead, as if there was something better worth gazing at beyond this life.
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