Death and taxes may be the two inevitable things in life, but increasingly the former is now celebrated rather than mourned More and more loved ones are holding celebrations of life instead of...
The term might not make sense to a lot of people, but mourning is in fact a profession that has existed in many cultures for centuries There are references to professional mourning in the bible, in...
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) works closely with families, and their funeral directors, who have lost a loved one as a result of heart disease to help them get through the grieving process...
The National Council for Palative Care, The Dying Matters Organization, and the National Bereavement Alliance recently teamed up to study how employers and workplaces handle the bereaved The study...
The debate over employee sanctioned bereavement leave is a difficult one On the one hand you have people who insist that bereavement leave should be a standard part of the employee benefit package,...
Cruse started out as a small local service focused on helping widows and their children through the bereavement process and now Cruse Bereavement Care is the most highly respected bereavement care...
Trying to talk to children—especially very young children—about funerals can be incredibly stressful As adults, we worry about causing too much stress or allowing our children to feel too much...
As respected members of the Dying Matters coalition, and as part of the associated Awareness Week, we at the Brighton and Hove based ‘Sussex Funeral Directors’ are proud to be hosting a funeral...
Although death is a universal inevitability, losing somebody close to you can be a shock and an experience that all people find difficult to come to terms with on a personal level It can be a...
Speaking at a funeral or memorial service is probably one of the most difficult speeches you’ll ever be asked to make It’s one thing to speak coherently in front an audience; it’s another to...
