Funerals

• • Remembering the good deeds and life experience of the deceased helps this grief
• • Focus on the deceased and the life that they have lived.​
• • Candle might be lit to remind people of the way the dead person affected their own lives.
• • No religious content and no suggestion that the person lives on except in the memories and the effects of their good works
• Example order:

  • opening music​
  • welcome the mourners​
  • reflection on life and death (non-religious pov)
  • tribute outlining personality and life of deceased​
  • readings (eg non-religious poetry or texts)​
  • reflection
  • committal – the curtains are closed on the coffin the casket is lowered into the ground​
  • final words (eg thanking mourners on behalf of the deceased)
  • closing music (non-religious)​