Thursday, October 5, 2023
We are so shocked to hear of Diane's passing. Though we haven't seen her for many years since we moved to Arizona, we remember her as a lovely young woman. She was always smiling. We grieve for her parents, Diane was their whole life.
"Death is nothing at all. It does not count. She has only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened, Everything remains exactly as it was. The old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name, Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should Diane be out of mind because she is out of sight? She is but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well."
Words cannot express the pain we feel for your loss. Linda and Walter you are in our prayers.
Marta and Dieter Ludwig
