The Good Funeral Guide is the first ever independent consumer guide to the funeral industry. It is for anyone who:
- needs to arrange a funeral for someone now
- has sick or elderly relatives or friends and knows that a funeral is imminent
- wants to find a good funeral director and have some say in the funeral itself
- wants to make future arrangements for their own funeral
- would like to learn about deaths and funerals
Authoritative, impartial and empowering, it is indispensable for those who don't want a conventional religious ceremony and invaluable for those who do. This is a book we will all need - probably at least twice.
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The Good Funeral Guide
Everything you need to know -- Everything you need to do
- 217 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What’s in this guide?
- 2 Take your time
- 3 Take charge
- 4 Take stock
- 5 Why do we have funerals?
- 6 What is a green funeral?
- 7 Burial or cremation?
- 8 Cremation
- 9 Burial
- 10 Decision time – burial or cremation?
- 11 What happens when we die?
- 12 Caring for the body – why would you want to?
- 13 Caring for the body – what needs to be done?
- 14 Caring for the body – doing it all yourself
- 15 Embalming
- 16 Going to see someone who has died
- 17 Decision time – caring for the body
- 18 Style your funeral
- 19 The crematorium and other funeral venues
- 20 Who will lead the funeral ceremony?
- 21 A life-centred funeral
- 22 Do it your way
- 23 Can a funeral be fun?
- 24 Set your goals
- 25 Choose your ingredients
- 26 Create a sense of occasion
- 27 Who will be the host?
- 28 Decision time – celebrant and ceremony
- 29 Construct the ceremony
- 30 Tribute-writing tips
- 31 Funeral food
- 32 Funeral directors – what are they like and what do they know?
- 33 Should funeral directors be regulated?
- 34 Funeral directors – what do they do?
- 35 Funeral directors – what do they cost?
- 36 Funeral directors – telling them apart
- 37 Funeral directors – find out who’s out there
- 38 Decision time – buy only what you want
- 39 101 coffins and a shroud
- 40 Final rides – hearses
- 41 Marking the spot – memorials
- 42 What to do with the ashes?
- 43 What does dying feel like?
- 44 Planning your own death and funeral
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