Repass (Repast) or Funeral Reception – What You Need to Know
Posted on October 26, 2015 by | 1 Comment
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What is a Repast After a Funeral? When someone dies, the family hosts a repast. It is usually less formal than an actual funeral service or memorial and much more informal. It’s common for anyone who attended to join in on this gathering. Funeral repast has long been a tradition to honor the deceased with […]
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Funeral Etiquette for Cell Phones
Posted on October 19, 2015 by | Leave a comment
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Cell phones often go off when we least want them to. In church. In school. During sex. And at a funeral. As other funeral directors can attest, the oddest thing about a cell phone ringing during funerals is how many people will actually answer. “Hello. Yeah. I’m at a funeral service. Can I call you […]
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How to Speak the Language of Grief © 2010 Alex, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio You walk into a house full of fresh grief. It’s fresh because the death just occurred. Your best friend’s husband went out to the bar last night, drowned his hard day in hard drink and he never made […]
Continue Reading Disenfranchised Grief
Posted on October 14, 2015 by | Leave a comment
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10 Types of Disenfranchised Grief Grief shared is grief diminished. When an individual dies, that death throws a web of relationships out of balance, causing the mourners to learn how to live in the new normal. That new normal is best found together in community. When grief isn’t shared. When there is no community […]
Continue Reading In Lieu of Memorials, Please Send Flowers
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https://flickr.com/photos/psag/279220369/ A director I used to work with always said ‘flowers are the bain of the funeral director’s existence’. Indeed, we spend a lot of our time arranging flowers at the chapel for visitation, then moving them to church for the service, then, taking some to the grave, some to the home, some to this […]
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