Sometimes it happens. We remember that one day we all will abandon the flesh and will depart to another reality.

During these moments, we recall we must elaborate a will, sharing what we are going to leave behind to the ones who will stay.

Wishes expressed as such, frequently create family fights, some of them might take years to be solved.

The more the possessions of the one who has left, the bigger the dispute, if amongst the contemplated ones there is no understanding, no affection.

However, there was a man who, thinking about his death, elaborated very precise wishes.

He thought about his funeral and what he could mean to the world.

He was a leader, but he did not want to be worshiped, he only wanted to be heard.

His was the fight for human rights and in the name of it he was arrested ten times. Nothing dissuaded him from his ideal of equality amongst men.

It was in the church where he was a minister that he spoke about his death:

“I frequently think about what is life's final common denominator: that something we call death.

I frequently think about my own death, and about my own funeral, but I don't think of it in a morbid sense.

I frequently ask myself. ‘What is it that I would want said?’

This morning, I leave you with the answer.

If you are next to me when my day arrives, remember I do not want a long funeral.

If you manage to get someone to say a few words at my funeral, tell this person not to speak much.

Tell him not to mention the peace Nobel Prize: that is not important!

Tell him not to mention that I have got three to four hundred prizes: that is not important!

I would like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King., tried to give his life serving others.

 I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, tried to love somebody.

I want you to be able to say that day, that I tried to be right and to walk next to my fellowmen.

That I did try, in my life, to clothe those who were naked, to visit those who were in prison, that I tried to love and to serve humanity.

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice, a drum major for peace, a drum major for righteousness.

And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind.

I just want to leave a committed life behind.

And this is all I have to say:

If I could help someone to keep going ahead

If I could animate someone with a song

If I could show someone the right way

If I could fulfill my christian task

If I could bring salvation to someone

If I could divulgate the message the Lord left…

Then, my life would not be in vain.”

The Reverend Martin Luther King Junior fought for the rights of the black people in the United States.

He won a Nobel Prize in 1964.

Every time he was arrested or suffered bomb attacks; every time his house, wife and children were menaced, he answered with love.

He used to say that hatred should be fought with love, which could stop its followers so that they would not react.

As he foretold, he was murdered.

In his grave, the proof that he believed in life after death.

And that he left, even if abruptly, with peace in his soul because he was certain of having fulfilled his task.

The epitaph says: “Free at last, free at last!

Thank God Almighty I am free at last!"

These were the words he said to conclude his most famous speech, untitled “I have a dream” when he translated the ideal of liberty and equality amongst all men.

I hope that all of us, who search for a religion, to have such lucid thoughts about life and death.

When this day arrives, life will be a better place.

Written by the Spiritist Moment Team, based on Martin Luther King Junior's speech “I have a Dream”. Translated by Huei Lin Allegretti.