Deniz' Memorial Service
Feb. 18th, 2005 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI just wanted to say how lovely I thought Deniz' Memorial Service was. I'm not a big fan of religion and churches generally make me uneasy, but I found that the fact that everyone in the place was genuinely in mourning somehow helped. The choir, the organist and the priest had all known Deniz personally, and I think they were determined to give her a special send-off. They succeeded.
The service was mostly in English, but there were bits in both French and Turkish. There were readings from the Bible and the Koran and there were songs sung by the Choir and by a muslim holy man (I forget the term) with a beautiful singing voice, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dcoombs gave a lovely speech.
Afterwards many people mentioned that it was a very beautiful service, held for the worst of all possible reasons.
The service was mostly in English, but there were bits in both French and Turkish. There were readings from the Bible and the Koran and there were songs sung by the Choir and by a muslim holy man (I forget the term) with a beautiful singing voice, and
dcoombs gave a lovely speech.Afterwards many people mentioned that it was a very beautiful service, held for the worst of all possible reasons.
