If you're reading this, you may have experienced recently a death among family or friends. You wish to remember, to memorialize, the one who's gone. Perhaps you want to celebrate a life.

I am sorry for your loss, and wish to be of service here. My suggestions for funeral music include beloved hymns and classicals that give voice to comfort and hope. I like organ or piano, not sad, but quiet and brightly alive. Here are a few suggestions:

• "The Love of God Is Greater Far," by F. M. Lehman
• "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," by Charles C. Converse
• "In the Garden," by C. Austin Miles
• "Beyond the Sunset," by Blanche Kerr Brock
• "Precious Lord, Take My Hand," by Thomas A. Dorsey
• "Whispering Hope," by Septimus Winner
• "My Father Watches Over Me," by Chas. H. Gabriel
• "Does Jesus Care When My Heart Is Pained," by J. Lincoln Hall
• "No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus," by C. F. Weigle
• "His Eye is on the Sparrow," by Chas. H. Gabriel
• "Under His Wings I Am Safely Abiding," by Ira D. Sankey
• "It Is Well with My Soul," by Philip P. Bliss
• "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," by William M. Runyan
• "How Great Thou Art," by Stuart K. Hine