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Choosing funeral services - A help to cope up with loss

Author: Aldo Moore
by Aldo Moore
Posted: Apr 14, 2015

Choosing funeral services - A help to cope up with loss

Dealing with death of a close relative or person close to one’s heart is the toughest experience in human life. Funerals provide the means and ways to accept this inalienable truth.

What are funeral services?

Funeral services deal with all the religious, official and personal aspects related to death of a person. They provide a well-planned and organized list of activities starting from the arrangement of caskets to organizing a wake.

Types of services

A loss of a person in the family is a great loss and it aggrieves the friends and remaining members of the family. A family can choose to have private service or memorial service in honor of the dead.

  • Private services: in this kind of services people want to keep their loss a private matter and organize a small service for the deceased. It is a closed service and the attendees are invited personally. These are low cost services.
  • Memorial services: are open services, where in, the general public who wish to attend the service can attend. In these services, the body of the dead is not present and they can be held in community halls, home, workplaces or in open space. These services include speeches, prayers and gospel songs. The photograph of the dead person is kept on elevated place and people can pay homage to them by placing flowers or lighting candles on the foothills of the altar.

Choosing the right assistance

On hiring a personal funeral counsellor, the members of the family can ideally get the right guidance on the procedures of funerals. He or she can advise one on the best kind of service needed according to the family needs and can help one make the service memorable. There are three kinds of funeral assistance and these are:

  • Traditional services: while planning this, a counsellor has to look and organize three important steps of funeral service. The steps are: a proper place for the body to be kept where people can come and visit the dead, the manner and the things needed for of funeral services: like casket, coffins and prayer service. He or she should be able to obtain all legal papers.
  • Graveside services: in this the funerals are held in the graveyard where the body is laid and the funeral planner has to look most important only at the organized visits of the people which happen a day or evening before the cremation.
  • Immediate burial: in this kind the counsellor has to arrange only for the immediate removal of the body and its burial procedures. No service or visits take place in this kind of funeral.

Option of personalizing the event

There are many counsellors or funeral planners who provide personalized packages and add personal touches to the funeral services. Choosing funeral services depend a lot of the type and range of options provided by the firm.

Planning funeral services mentioned available at Oceanside Mission Cemetery. Please go to official cemetery website and organize consultancy.

Contact :

Contact Person: Maureen Sullivan

E-mail: info@sanluisrey.org

Old Mission San Luis Rey de Francia

Address: 4050 Mission Avenue, Oceanside, CA 92057-6402

Tel/Fax: 760 231-8445, ext. 133

Website: http://www.sanluisrey.org/

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Author: Aldo Moore

Aldo Moore

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