Séamas O'Reilly: The Queen's funeral got me thinking about my own 

In place of bible verses, I’d ask that the congregation is shown the first eight minutes of Pixar’s Up and that bit of My Girl when McCauley Culkin dies
Séamas O'Reilly: The Queen's funeral got me thinking about my own 

Seamas O'Reilly. Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan

While the Queen of England’s funeral was going on this week, it got me thinking about death and commemoration. 

I’ve been to a lot of funerals, but most were during childhood, and all were variations on a similar theme.

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