I am very sad, at the same time very happy. What a lucky thing it is to be missed from the world once you are gone. I've only ever read "Childhood's End", but Arthur C. Clark has got to be one of the best classic sci-fi writers.
Good for you for standing up for a non-religious funeral, A.C.C.
The world will miss you.
I'm not even angry... I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me... And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
-"Still Alive"- GLaDOS
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. — Christopher Darlington Morley
