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Unique Funeral Planning -
Honoring the Life of Your Loved One
"Funerals are a time for retelling and strengthening the stories, keeping the stories alive, thickening them, giving them more detail. The more stories, the more different words, the more different sides of someone that you can build pictures of, the more richly the person will be brought to mind."
- Bill Logan, at a funeral celebrants conference in New Zealand, 1999
As you honor your loved one's life and spirit at a funeral, you will find a comfort and a peace that will help you through this most difficult time. No matter how difficult remembering can be, it will also help you feel closer and connected to your loved one through the rest of your life.
Ideas for Planning a Meaningful, Unique Funeral Service
Healing activities you can do to honor, celebrate, and pay tribute to your loved one at a unique funeral service your family will .
Funeral
Planning Directory
Celebrate and honor a life well lived through help from a local Funeral Celebrant, Photo Video Tribute Creator, or Funeral Home whose goal it is to help you create a more meaningful service that is all about honoring the spirit and life of your loved one.
Share Comforting Memories
With families and friends gathered, this is a unique time to remember and share those priceless memories.
Remembrance
Poems and Quotes for a Funeral or Memorial Service
View a collection of poems and quotes that help bring comfort
in this time of grief.
Why
are these remembering activities so important?
The
week before the funeral is difficult, disorienting, and a not
just a little scary. You may feel that you don't have the time
or the energy to dedicate to remembering and planning a funeral service like the ones you hear about from others.
However,
I promise you that if you dedicate a little time to
creating a meaningful, unique funeral service, anything you do will bring you comfort as time goes on.
You may even be feeling rather numb right now, and in a way
that makes the process of remembering and sharing those memories a little
easier, in the moment.
In
the past, funerals have always been about saying goodbye. But
in the last ten years, families have realized how important
it is to honor the life their loved one led. Keeping our memories
alive allows us to feel that our connection to our loved one
will continue. We
are no longer told to "forget" and "move on"
with our lives - our memories can and should continue to be
an important part of us forever.
Still,
you may feel you just can't do this right now - if that's the
case, think about all those friends who said to call if you
needed help with anything. Unique funeral planning is the perfect thing to ask
for help with. It may be too hard for you to do yourself, but
someone else who knew your loved one may be much more able to
help you create something that will honor and pay tribute to
your loved one in a way that you will treasure forever.
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