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Choosing The Best Materials For Cremation Urns
The passing over of a dear friend or relative is something that is not easy to cope with, and in order to preserve their memory, a lot more people are choosing cremation over burial. This means that there is the often difficult choice of choosing the right cremation urn.
Under The American Flag: Celebrating For All The Wrong Reasons
Many Americans are numb to the word Freedom and the wave of the American Flag. Many have forgotten that the soldiers stood firmly between life and death for more than freedom. If we remember their true legacy is more than freedom, and feel what they felt, the numbness will dissolve and the authentic
Funeral Planning: Six Things You Can Do Ahead Of Time
Handling some aspects of funeral planning ahead of time can make things easier on you and your family. Here are six things you can do before your loved one passes.
Samples of Obituaries
A sample of an obituary is a notice is a publicly announce death of a loved one. Generally, public death announcements are presented in a local newspaper and indicates when and where the funeral or memorial service will be held at the end of the obituary.
Celebration of Life Service Planning
When a loved one dies, a celebration of life service is just as appropriate to have as a funeral or memorial. While the latter focuses on saying goodbye and mourning the deceased person, the former celebrates his or her life.
Willed Body and Body Parts Programs
As an alternative to the traditional wake and funeral, embalming and burial -or, as a ploy to limit final expenses and give something back, donating your body or certain body parts is an option chosen by many. This article explores some of the 'ins' and 'outs' of the topic.
Funeral Eulogies - We All Approach Them Differently
This article explains what a funeral eulogy is. It then explains how, despite how we approach them differently, what they do for us and the audience is the same.
Funeral Bulletin Example
A great funeral bulletin example is a program that contains a 4-page layout formatted on a single sheet of letter size paper. The front contains the deceased photo with their name and date beneath the photo. This provides the initial identification of the loved one on the front cover.
If You Do Not Have a Headstone How Will Anyone Find You?
Going to graveyards and looking at the inscriptions on the tombstones has always been a tool that was used in genealogy research.However now due to the computer age we are able to research information about the tombstones online.There is even a way nowadays using digital technology to attach to the
A Mother's Eulogy, An Interchanging Poetry Adaptation
Often, in my own life, I have been asked to give the eulogy for families and friends. Giving a eulogy for a Mother is the hardest thing any of us will ever have to undertake. As a son or daughter, it is even harder. I have written a generic eulogy that may be used by most families.
Helpful Packing & Storage Tips For After a Funeral
It is very hard to forget the fact that a beloved person is no more, and that life goes on without that person. After one attends the funeral, for the first few years it is difficult to forget him or her! In fact for the few days you don't even like to move out of bed or any other place for tha
What You Should Know About a Monument Grave
A tombstone typically includes the deceased's name, their date of birth and death, and sometimes a personal message or a prayer called epitaph. When a standing monument is placed at the head of a grave, it is referred to as stele. The monument consists of several parts to be assembled into a wh
Popular Funeral Music and Songs
Music can really be touching and comforting in times of bereavement and mourning. To make the ceremony even more memorable, you can play songs that can really touch the hearts of the people who are present during the event.
How Should One Console
When famous rabbii's son died, his students came in to comfort him. They entered, sat down before him, and said words of consolation, but he was not comforted until one of his students told him a story. The fameous rabbi complimented him by saying, "you have comforted me the way men should
Bereaved, Constantly Thinking of Person Who Has Died
When you suffer a bereavement of someone close to you, it's not uncommon to be constantly thinking about the person who has died, and to be unable to 'switch off'. This article provides some practical advice on how to move on after a bereavement.
When Death Enters Your Home - A Practical Guide
Do you have little or no knowledge to organize a beloved relative's funeral and/or cremation on your own? With the publication of this article, the author achieved his lifelong wish to record SOME of his knowledge gained over a period of 26 years on funerals, cremations and cemeteries, knowing
How to Handle the Pain of a Loss
Losing a loved one is the most pain filled experience that I have ever encountered. My own experience with the loss of family left me traumatized! My little Mom and then her brother, who was the only uncle in my life, was followed by my only sibling and then my Mother-In-Law, all from Cancer. Do you
Funeral Planning - Thinking Outside the Box
Funerals can be quite expensive these days. And, the attitude of the one facing that moment may change. The traditional approach has been to "be prepared." There is nothing wrong with that. Increasingly the preparations have included numerous options, which before went unconsidered.
Parallel Universes: The Theory and Reality of Dying
The earliest reference I could find to "the elephant in the room" story was by the wonderful 12th Century Persian poet Rumi. He wrote about wise men in a darkened room trying to describe an elephant in it. Since they had never seen such an animal, their description would be based on what t
Grief - Finding Your Way to Hope
Unless you've experienced it first-hand, true grief is incomprehensible. Sure, everyone understands unhappiness, possibly even misery. But until you've gone through gut-wrenching loss and subsequent recovery, you cannot speak about grief knowledgeably. Some might disagree. I might have mys