How to Plan a Memorable Funeral
If you are planning a funeral, then you hope it will be memorable for those who are joining you to mourn their loved one. There are ways to make a funeral stand out in people's minds, and help them remember the event and their friend long after the service has ended.
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Planning a Memorable Funeral
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Personalize the service for the deceased. Many services are pretty standard, with the same, generic words delivered by a priest.
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Put together some sort of performance for the attendees. Consider renting a projector and showing photos from the person's life or having someone sing one of the person's favorite songs.
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Think about decorating with plants (a symbol of life eternal) instead of cut flowers, which remind us of death.
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Try to make the service as happy as possible. A death feels sad and tragic, but it can also be a celebration of the life lived. Talk about what fun you had together instead of how sad you are that he or she is gone now.
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Tips & Warnings
Take things one day at a time and take all the support that you can get. Planning a funeral is difficult and often painful.
You will also have to arrange for the burial itself, which means buying a grave plot, arranging things with the graveyard and buying and erecting a headstone.
Services can be expensive. Find out if you are entitled to insurance benefits of any kind, which will help you cover the burial costs.
Do not close yourself off from family and friends. You need them as much as they need you.
