She used to play and sing with joy The song of Home , Sweet Home . Who says we have n't any poetical talent on the Island ! Have you ever noticed what heaps of good people die , Anne , dearie ? It 's kind of pitiful . Here 's ten obituaries , and every one of them saints and models , even the men . Here 's old Peter Stimson , who has ` left a large circle of friends to mourn his untimely loss . ' Lord , Anne , dearie , that man was eighty , and everybody who knew him had been wishing him dead these thirty years . Read obituaries when you 're blue , Anne , dearie -- especially the ones of folks you know . If you 've any sense of humor at all they 'll cheer you up , believe ME . I just wish I had the writing of the obituaries of some people . Is n't ` obituary ' an awful ugly word ? This very Peter I 've been speaking of had a face exactly like one . I never saw it but I thought of the word OBITUARY then and there . There 's only one uglier word that I know of , and that 's RELICT . Lord , Anne , dearie , I may be an old maid , but there 's this comfort in it -- I 'll never be any man 's ` relict . ' '' `` It IS an ugly word , '' said Anne , laughing . `` Avonlea graveyard was full of old tombstones ` sacred to the memory of So-and-So , RELICT of the late So-and-So . ' It always made me think of something worn out and moth eaten . Why is it that so many of the words connected with death are so disagreeable ? I do wish that the custom of calling a dead body ` the remains ' could be abolished .
I positively shiver when I hear the undertaker say at a funeral , ` All who wish XXXXX see the remains please step this way . '
Anne If in like of on that to with years