Funerals & Bereavement

This book will help young people to seek guidance about death, funerals, life after death and heaven. It will also help adults to include young members of their family in preparing the funeral and talking about how loss affects everyone.

This book offers us a chance to get things right before we say goodbye. It is both a spiritual and practical guide to planning your final journey, your farewells, your funeral and your will in a way that will uniquely bless you and those around you.

At the heart of this book is the importance of balancing the Christian gospel with the hopes and wishes of a grieving family, even if these wishes do not entirely fit with the minister’s personal theology.

This practical and extremely helpful resource book provides guidelines for creating individualised funeral, thanksgiving and memorial services and includes a wide range of prayers, readings and reflections for each stage of the service from the...