September 17, 2020
Anthropologist Douglas Davies states that without having some way to deal with death we would not have thrived as a species. Conscious of our mortality we […]
September 14, 2020
The newspapers are full of articles about the cost of funerals. Some heady figures are quoted in these, often between £4,500 and £6000 for a funeral. […]
September 11, 2020
Arranging a funeral at the time of need is usually a daunting task. You may know little about it. Most people don’t talk about it. You […]
September 10, 2020
Bereavement is often a lonely experience during normal times, but at the moment this is exacerbated by the need for social isolating and shielding. Talking, physical […]
March 23, 2020
Woody Allen stated “It’s not that I am afraid of dying, I just don’t want to be there when it happens!” I’d like to encourage you […]
March 19, 2020
In recent years there has been a rise in the number of woodland burials, on sites which have planning permission to be a cemetery. None are […]
March 17, 2020
It looks as though the virus will have big implications for how we have funerals in the coming months. Some countries are banning funerals in the […]
March 11, 2020
There is a danger that funerals become just a celebration of life over and above an important rite of passage which includes the sadness of loss. […]
March 9, 2020
Most people arranging a funeral are doing it for the first time with little prior experience. The Office Of Fair Trading described it as a “distress […]