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September 20, 2018
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Questions to ask a Funeral Director

Following on from our recent blog, Not All Funeral Directors are the Same, we thought it might help if we compiled a list of questions to […]
September 13, 2018
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Funerals for the Unaffiliated

Many people are not members of any religious congregation, what we call unaffiliated (to a religion or set belief system). Over the past twenty years funeral […]
September 10, 2018
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Ten Ways To Improve A Crematorium Funeral

It is the funeral ceremony that everyone remembers. The person who has died takes centre stage for the last time and those attending may begin to […]
August 30, 2018
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Ten ways to reduce the burden of funeral costs

Following on from our previous blog, Ways to help paying for a funeral, we felt that suggesting ten ways to reduce the burden of funeral costs […]
August 28, 2018
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Ten Vehicles You Can Use as a Hearse

You don’t have to use a formal hearse for a funeral. In fact more than half the funerals we undertake don’t have a formal hearse, but use some other kind […]
August 24, 2018
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Lois Tonkin’s A Brief Guide to Grief

A  guide intended as a reminder for grieving people that their grief is a normal response to their loss, and an encouragement for them to draw […]
August 24, 2018
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Ways to Help Paying for a Funeral

There was a report on ITV news a couple of days ago about the difficulty people have paying for funerals, particularly where the death is unexpected. […]
August 24, 2018
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Rituals around Death

We watched Grayson Perry on Rites Of Passage last night on Channel 4. It is true that as a more secular society we are in danger […]
August 21, 2018
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Lois Tonkin’s Growing Around Grief

“A grieving woman drew a circle to represent herself and then shaded the entire circle… The shading she said represented her grief…” Lois has been teaching […]

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