An Honest Death: Life’s End and Humanist Funerals. “Even if you avoid thinking about death, it is still going to happen, to you and everyone else,” Andrew Copson, co-author of The Little Book of Humanist Funerals, reminds us. The goals of BHA “celebrants” who preside over funerals, Engelke indicates, are at times at odds with one another. Source: carolynabooth/pixabayA central issue in the secular humanists’ approach to funerals is the tension between the material and the immaterial, as manifested, for example, in dead bodies. However, Engelke endorses the fundamental secular humanist insight that eternal life would rob existence of meaning.