About Me
My name is Chris. Welcome to my funeral blog. Not many people like to think about death, but when a loved one passes away, it is time to face up to things. The biggest job is organising the funeral. When my mother passed away, it was down to me to organise the funeral. I was overcome with grief so I found it very difficult to think about the type of funeral my mother would have wanted. I got in touch with a fantastic funeral home who helped me to plan everything. I decided to start this blog to offer advice to others who are planning a funeral.
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Funeral planning services offered by funeral homes
While delivering funeral planning services, funeral homes extend practical and compassionate assistance to the families of a departed kin. They go beyond the bare essentials of business practise to lend counsel on the myriad uncertainties and questions that materialize after a person passes on. Besides guidance to the families, funeral homes avail other various services to the bereaved families.
Place of burial
The first and foremost concern with bereaved relatives is where to lay their beloved to rest.
How to Plan for a Funeral
If you lose a loved one, you are left with a gap in your life and the immediate concern of laying your loved one to rest. When you are making the funeral arrangements to bid your loved one farewell, here are the fundamental steps that you should follow:
Choose a funeral director
A funeral director is like a builder—you give them a plan for the funeral, and they carry it out.
What You Need to Know About Funeral Home Costs
Losing a loved one can be an emotionally wrenching experience. This pain can stop you from making the correct decisions regarding the preparations to send your dearly departed one to his or her final resting place. One of the key decisions that you may have to make regards the choice of a funeral home. The costs vary so much from one funeral home to the other. This article discusses the general categories into which those costs are divided.
Observing Etiquette at Orthodox Catholic Funerals
Death and funerals invoke different practices around the world, and to some extent, within religions. For those who observe Catholicism, death means passing from the present life into the afterlife, which makes the funeral incredibly symbolic. In order to understand how orthodoxy affects the funeral process, it's worth examining how Greek and Portuguese individuals approach such occasions.
What happens immediately after the death?
The time between death and a Greek Orthodox funeral should last between two to three days, but this sometimes extends to a week.
Five Rituals to Consider When Planning a Funeral for a Child
Losing a child can be devastating, but many people find the funeral rituals to be part of the healing process. If you are planning a funeral for your child or if you are helping a friend or relative plan a funeral for their child, there are several things you may want to consider.
1. Take Your Time
Traditionally, funerals are held close to the time of death so that the body may be displayed.
What to do when someone dies
If you are bereaved, there are many things to attend to in handling the affairs of the deceased. From the moment a loved one passes on there are certain things you need to do. These are;
Getting a death certificate
In the first place, if the deceased died in a hospital or nursing home, a death certificate is written and their body is usually kept in the mortuary until you involve the services of a funeral director.