Funeral Services - Memorial Service - Scattering of Ashes - Personalised Eulogy
Your Loved One's Life... a Time For Reflection
Funerals and memorial services enable us to share our memories and
celebrate the lives of those we have loved and who have loved us.
It is a time to reflect on your loved ones life story, and celebrate the
person who was and forever will be.
Through telling their stories, we celebrate their lives and as fellow
mourners think about happier times and contemplate not what you have
lost, but what you have gained from having them in your lives.
In honouring and celebrating their life, I will create a ceremony which
reflects their unique nature and the influence they had on the lives of
others.
I am a celebrant who believes that funerals need to be a celebration of
life - presented with dignity and respect that will ensure your loved
ones lives are celebrated with dignity and compassion.
I believe a funeral service should be very personal. People are becoming
much more conscious of having the funeral service that they want and not
what someone may think they should have.
Working with the relatives is so important to ensure the ceremony is indicative of the life of the person. With the help of family and friends I can create a service that is appropriate for this person.
Planning a meaningful, personalized funeral is one of the most important tasks you will ever undertake. Think of the funeral as a gift to the person who died. It is your chance to think about and express the value of the life that was lived.
My funeral services are individually and uniquely written for each person after a consultation with the family. Every funeral is presented with sincerity, understanding and compassion, not only for the deceased, but most importantly, the family and friends remaining.
I am able to offer advice on rituals, readings and music. I am very comfortable with offering suggestions for creative and unusual ideas of celebrating the life of the deceased.
Death Is Nothing At All
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you have always used.
Put no difference in your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or
sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Pray, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant; it is the same as it ever was;
There is absolutely unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight.
I am but waiting for you, for an interval somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.
Author: Canon Henry Scott Holland
