Carry the coffin, it‚’ll help you carry on : I think one of the most important aspects of the coffin is that it can be carried. And I think we‚’re meant to carry each other, and I think carrying someone you love, committing them, is very important for us that we deal with death….
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Funeral Planning (Part 1)
Creating A Funeral Ceremony If you want a religious funeral ceremony, you will want to put yourself in the hands of your faith leader and negotiate. A religious ceremony normally has a format, a liturgy, which you will be able to personalise only to a certain extent. Starting with a clean sheet If you do Read more…
A Step By Step Guide | What To Do After Someone Dies
What To Do After Someone Died Overview Register the death When a death is reported to the coroner Arrange the funeral ‚”Tell Us Once‚” and organizations you need to contact Death Abroad (ALL links can be followed direct from this document) 1. Overview When someone dies there are 3 things you must do in the Read more…
Celebrant Training – The 6 Stages of Grief Explained
1. DEATH Death is a beginning. Once it occurs the survivor must move on with life and start again. However, there is at first a downward trend after the death occurs, and the survivor will move through four stages of grief before a resolution takes place. Some, or even all, of these stages may last Read more…
Writing a Eulogy – Top 7 Tips
How to prepare a Funeral Speech / Eulogy It is one of the saddest things that we have to do. On top of all the grief that we suffer, we also have to deal with nerves and the fear of standing up in front of a large crowd. We have the worry that we may Read more…
An Insiders Guide to Celebrant Training
Celebrant Training – An Insiders Guide Almost all of us have been to a naming ceremony, wedding ceremony or funeral ceremony officiated by either a registrar or a religious minister. These ceremonies are almost guaranteed to follow a rigid formula and apart from change of names, each type of ceremony is identical to the last, Read more…
On-Line Celebrant Training
The United Kingdom Society of Celebrants (UKSoC) have added three New guided learning courses to its portfolio. The New courses are similar in content to our existing celebrant training courses, however, there is one key difference – the new courses can be completed on-line with live tutorial support from the comfort of your own office Read more…