The family requested that over 200 mourners wear blue in honor of Slater and donate to LBT Global, an overseas crisis support charity that provided them with assistance during their difficult time, as reported by Express.
According to the outlet, the funeral also featured the poignant sonnet “Time Will Ease the Hurt” by Bruce Wilmer, which explores the concept of grief and its persistent nature.
“The sadness of the present day is permanently fixed in time, and the journey to the future is a gradual and arduous ascent.
” However, the poem asserts that the feelings that are currently so visceral and real will be unable to maintain their new intensity as time begins to repair.
“No wound so profound will ever be completely eradicated; however, each injury tends to diminish with each passing day.” It continued, “Nothing else can erase the painful imprints on your mind,
A huge turnout for Jay's funeral, which was a moving send-off. Hundreds have followed Jay's family down towards the graveside. @MENnewsdesk pic.twitter.com/4bT2ANQX2g
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