A carefully chosen floral tribute can add character and colour to an otherwise sombre occasion.
As more people opt for personalised funeral ceremonies in place of more traditional funeral practices, what new rituals they adding to their funeral plans?
A funeral celebrant is the person who conducts a funeral. This could be a religious official following a traditional funeral ceremony, or a civil celebrant who will lead a non-religious service.
Not every celebrity funeral is the same. Some are star-spangled spectacles packed with beautiful people and paparazzi; Other celebrities choose to make their final journey one of the most private of their lives.
Coffins have had a place in funerals for thousands of years and still play an important part in most funeral services. The huge range of coffins available means that it is possible to consider your loved one’s final wishes, from eco-friendly materials to custom colours and designs.
No one, not even Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, can live forever. Celebrating her official birthday last weekend, the Queen is now 93 and the plans for her eventual passing are firmly in place.
With evidence of burial traditions dating back throughout the ages, taking care of the deceased remains part of our culture today despite changes in funeral traditions. But why do we do we have funerals?
Many people choose to introduce some personal touches alongside the more traditional elements of their funeral service. But for some, nothing less than a truly unique send-off will do.
Burials are not as popular in the UK as they once were, but the 140,000 burials every year reflect a long history of burials in Britain.
Just 2% of cremations in 2018 were direct, but that number is expected to rise quickly as a number of factors combine to make direct cremation more attractive.
A memorial creates a focus for memories but with less burials, people are looking for new ways to ensure that their loved ones are remembered.
There are two important venues involved with most funerals: The venue for the service and the venue for the wake. Both should be right for you.
Digital technology sometimes gets a bad press, but it has come to play an important role before, during and after family funerals.
Talking more about death is a good thing, but there is a clear difference between encouraging private, purposeful conversations around the fulfillment of final wishes and idle banter that risks disrespecting the bereaved.
At £4,798, the average cost of a burial is more than £1,000 higher than the average cost of a cremation.
For some people, the answer to rising prices and lengthy waiting times is direct cremation, with an average cost of £1,712, £2,032 less than a standard cremation and £2,559 less than the average funeral according to SunLife.
They say change is the only constant and that applies to funerals as much as anything else – several long-established traditions continued to give way to personal choice in many of the funerals held last year
We take the idea of cremation very much for granted in modern day Britain, but less than 150 years ago, there were virtually no cremations carried out in the United Kingdom.
