During the past 10 years I have had the privilege of conducting more than 500 funerals with the Humanist Society Scotland. This has allowed me to share feelings of sadness and loss with the bereaved, but I have also regularly encountered other factors at play, including humour, anger, fear, anxiety, courage, resentment, wonder and denial. This book contains short stories and poems drawn from that experience, as well as something of what I was exposed...