For a last moment the Queen is everywhere

“We took it for granted, this constancy and constant presence.” The Economist’s obituaries editor reflects on the death of the Queen for 1843 magazine. Read more: Photograph: Dougie Wallace

ime and again we have heard the word in recent days. Britain is mourning the Queen’s “passing”. The Queen has “passed”. Not passed away – a more solemn antecedent, which brought to mind a collective doffing of tall hats – but simply passed, like a figure in a procession, or a shadow on the wall.

In a more general way, the ubiquity of “passing” is understandable. “Death” and “died” are difficult words to say, harder to face, brutal as a curse. Immediately the images crowd in of yellow skin and skulls, dust and shrouds and tilted gravestones; collapse, black absence. Yet, as with most euphemisms, “passing” simply won’t do as a death-word. It is weak and frail; it has no substance and no resistance. It is like the gun-salutes in the park, which trail off in smoke, or the bell-ringing which ends in echoes sinking under the hill. It is the passage of a ghost. Nothing remains.“Passing” does not begin to evoke the struggle and heft of life, the work and sweat of it, the weight of the person lost, whatever their class and condition.

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