Ashes to Ashes"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."I closed my mind to the words spoken by the vicar as I watched his coffin slowly carried into it's final resting place. As per custom, as the pall bearers ushered him inside the darkened tomb a handful of earth was scattered upon the coffin, I too held in my hand some dirt but could not bring myself to cast it upon his casket.The only other non official members of this funeral cortege were two maids, their tears fell freely and it is no shame to admit that I too w