Saying “Thank You” and “Goodbye”

BRIGHT HORIZON HOSPICE – SAYING “THANK YOU” AND “GOODBYE”

(name),

Thank you for all you have given me, your family, friends and
the world. You have impacted my life with
your love, your caring and your wisdom.
Now that you are gone, I will carry all your
love and everything I learned from you
within me. The essence of who you were as
a person will live within me. The essence of
who you were as a person will live within
me and within others. You will continue to
give to the world as we pass on to others
what we learned from you. I will miss you,
but will have joy in remembering all you
meant to me. Each thing you touched will
bring you to mind. Your laugh, your smile,
your words will resound in my mind and
heart. Goodbye, dear one.
— Helen Meier, Hope Hospice, Dublin, CA

Christian

Let not your hearts be troubled: believe in
God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house
are many rooms; if it were not so, would I
have told you that I go to prepare a place for
you? I will come again and will take you to
myself, that where I am you may be also.
— John 14: 1-3

Jewish

We rejoice over a birth and mourn over
a death. But we should not. For when
a man is born, who knows what he will
do or how he will end? But when a
man dies, we may rejoice — if left a
good name and this world in peace.
— Jewish Midrash, Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7:1 (4)