Funeral Services in general

Earlier this year my partner's Aunty died from cancer, after a 14 month long battle against the wretched disease. I only knew her for about 6 months, and I didn't know her prior to her being diagnosed. When I met her she had practically lost her sight due to tumours from her brain pressing on her optical nerve and she had terrible memory loss. However, the family, myself included are the type of people who have a good laugh through difficult times, to try and get through it together. I helped with her care as she wanted to spend her remaining remaining months at home, rather than go in to a hospice. This was a very difficult time. Between her daughters, her ...  Read the complete review

This is one review hard to write about as its makes you remember death for friends and family which is awful. Last time I was at a funeral it was for my very close uncle. Now when a funeral happens you really need to be organizing straight away and trying to look around. Finding a coffin is the main thing you need to do and there are local places in the area which will offer their services to use. I had the task of finding one for the death in my family. At such a emotional time even the funeral service workers feel sorry for you. Infact for me they even offered a discount on the coffin price. You need to make sure the coffin is a big enough size for the ...  Read the complete review

I wholly expect to get a low read rate on this review - after all, who on earth wants to pass the time by reading about funerals? And I know what you are thinking - "it's that laugh a minute rosebud here to depress us again". Well trust me, that is not my intention and I hope you will stick with this and hopefully learn a little about something we all hope we won't have to do and that is organising funerals. I have twice had the misfortune to be involved in organising funerals. The first one was my father's, which took place just 3 weeks after my daughter was born. My father died in London, where I lived at the time, and my mother, who ...  Read the complete review

As we're coming up to Mothering Sunday and this will be my first one without a mom, and also coming up to the first anniversary of her death, I thought I would try to deal with it all by telling you about her funeral. My father had died 3 years before in 2005 a couple of months after our wedding and mom had suggested that I might not want to have his funeral at the church where we married as it might spoil my happy memories. I thought this was very kind of her but I told her that dad had been happy at that church and I didn't want us to take him somewhere strange for his funeral. The minister who had married us performed the ceremony and the company who had ...  Read the complete review

Yesterday I had the misfortune to be at a funeral for a friend but it was a real eye opener. My friend and his family are spiritualists and so they opted for an almost completely non-religious service. I say almost completely because there was one prayer at the end but no bible readings or traditional hymns. Five years ago when my Mum died my brothers and I chose a religious service for her funeral, we did this because our Mum was a religious person and we had no experience in organising a funeral so we spoke to the vicar beforehand and gave her lots of information about our Mum, chose a couple of hymns (we didn't have The Lord Is My Shepherd because Mum ...  Read the complete review