The 1,517 lives lost in the Titanic tragedy will be commemorated in a beautiful hand”“crafted funeral pall which will be dedicated in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, a century after the disaster.
The pall, made of 100 per cent Merino felt, is backed with Irish linen and dyed an indigo blue, evoking an image of the midnight sea in which the Titanic finally came to rest.
I am sure there are some in our culture who would say “Why the big deal about some people who died so long ago?” But I am not one of them. I think its a good thing to not forget those people no matter how long ago. Commemorations of this nature are a good way to reaffirm how unaccountably precious each human life is.
This is a beautiful work of art, to be sure, and it is an altogether fitting way of remembering those lost on the Titanic.