[ Reverend: Welcome to the wake of Trevor Cliveson. I will be giving the elegy but please feel free to view the body and talk with his widow as I’m speaking. Judy didn’t want this to be formal so please feel free to do as you wish. ]

Reverend: Welcome to the wake of Trevor Cliveson. I will be giving the elegy but please feel free to view the body and talk with his widow as I’m speaking. Judy didn’t want this to be formal so please feel free to do as you wish.
Trevor’s death has come as a shock to many of us. I knew Trevor for a good number of his 83 years...(fades out)1

(as people are standing around the room a man walks up to the isolated casket, bends down and begins to speak) 2

Henry: Hello again, Trevor Cliveson. I don’t believe I’m here, standing in front of your dead corpse. I’ve thought of this day for years, what I would say to you if I had the chance. I think I know what I want to say to you now.3

Reverend (fades in)...Trevor was a hard worker. He fully devoted himself to his job. The people who worked with him considered him to be the best...(fades out)4

Henry: I despise you. I have despised you for 37 years. But you knew that you could feel my hate for you, couldn’t you?! Ever since I was 8. That’s when you ruined my life.5

Reverend (fades in)...Although we want to morn today it is not what Trevor would want. He wouldn’t want to see tears and sad faces, he would want for people to remember the good times...(fade out)6

Henry: You son of a bitch. What kind of pervert would put his hands down an eight year-old’s pants? I was sick! My parents thought I was dying. They were right, I was dying; every time you entered me a part of me died. 7

Reverend (fades in)...He was a loving husband and doting father of 3 beautiful daughters...(fades out)8

Henry: Of course I couldn’t tell anyone what happened. I was eight. No one would have believed me then. You knew that too. You knew I was more scared of telling on you then being touched by you. And I hate that you were right. 9

Reverend (fades in)...Trevor loved only one thing after his wife and children and that was to help those in need...(fade out)10

Henry: I never told anyone what you did to me, you lucky bastard. I could have ruined you. I wanted to so badly...One of the hardest things was being so weak I couldn’t even tell my wife. But she knew something was wrong with me even if I could never tell her. I couldn’t get past the shame.11

Reverend (fades in)...Trevor told me once that he never questioned his life or his purpose on the earth. He knew all along...(fade out)12

Henry: I wasn’t entirely weak though. Shocking huh? When our little boy was sick my wife suggested we see you and I nearly lost it. All I could see was you forcing him to take off his pants and I nearly vomited. After that she never brought your name up again. 13

Reverend: (fades in)...He made leaps and bounds in paediatrics, specifically in cancer studies. No one knows exactly how many children he helped to heal...(fade out)14

Henry: I finally have it in me to tell you how I feel. God, I’m talking to a dead guy!15

Reverend (fade in)...Besides being a doctor he also was a loyal deacon at his home church and volunteered whatever time he had to spare to Doctors Without Borders...(fade out) 16

Henry: I didn’t come here today to forgive you, Doctor Cliveson. It isn’t like I can’t forgive you, I don’t want to. I wouldn’t know what to do without this hate in my heart and I don’t know who to be if not the victim. So I’ll take our secret to the grave too, but unlike you I won’t burn in Hell for it. (He turns and leaves the room)17

Reverend (fade in)...I don’t know what this community will do without Trevor Cliveson. I know that he would have wanted his example to inspire future leaders...(fade out)