SGrouchy comments on Solstice 2015: What Memes May Come (Part II - Atheism, Rationality and Death) - Less Wrong Discussion
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Robert Frost's"Nothing Gold Can Stay" seems like the obvious choice.
1) It is so popular that the majority of people already at least sorta-know it, and a significant percentage could already recite it from memory.
2) It has a cadence that makes it easy to recite in unison.
3) It's simple.
4) It isn't specific to atheism/ doesn't exclude anybody.
5) It faces death rather than rages against it. Funerals probably aren't the best time to rage against death. That's sorta counterproductive to the acceptance that funerals are supposed to provide that helps people move on with their lives in a functioning manner.