Funeral Etiquette
Posted on October 19, 2015 by | Leave a comment
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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 […]
Continue Reading How to Write a Sympathy Card
Posted on October 9, 2015 by | Leave a comment
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A sympathy card is a nice way to offer support and express your condolences to people who are suffering a loss. You can send a sympathy card even if you did not know the deceased if you are close to members of that person’s family, or if you were close to the deceased but don’t […]
Continue Reading Why a Memorial Service Matters
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For many of us, the loss of a loved one is extraordinarily difficult. The emotions we experience, added to helping those closest to us cope with their grief, can make loss feel insurmountable to even the strongest among us. Because of this, it can be tempting to postpone, or simply decide against, having a memorial service […]
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