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When a loved one dies, grieving family members and friends are often confronted with dozens of decisions about the funeral. This section of Meaningfulfunerals.com is designed to give you an [...]

Helping You and Your Family Create a Meaningful Funeral This is a naturally difficult time, compounded by the fact that you are faced with many decisions that must be made as you begin to plan [...]

The funeral ceremony allows us to say hello on the pathway to goodbye. As you enter into the planning process, you may find it helpful to remind yourself why we have funerals. For thousands of [...]

A child or young adult has died. Everyone who loved the child is now faced with mourning this tragic, untimely death. The child’s parents are heartbroken. But what about the grandparents? [...]

How Can You Help? A friend or acquaintance in your workplace has experienced the death of someone loved. You want to help, but you are not sure how to go about it. This article will help you turn [...]

Historian Arnold Toynbee once wrote, “There are always two parties to a death; the person who dies and the survivors who are bereaved.” Unfortunately, many survivors of suicide suffer [...]

You have learned that someone in your family is dying. You want to help the ill person as well as your family. This article will guide you in ways to turn your cares and concerns into positive [...]

While half of all men and one-third of all women in the United States will develop cancer during their lifetimes, it’s different when cancer hits close to home. Only then do we become fully aware [...]

A paradox is a seemingly self-contradictory statement or situation that is in fact often true. The paradox of mourning we will consider together in this article might, at first glance, seem [...]

A paradox is a seemingly self-contradictory statement or situation that is in fact often true. The paradox of mourning we will consider together in this article might, at first glance, seem [...]

A paradox is a seemingly self-contradictory statement or situation that is in fact often true. The paradox of mourning we will consider together in this article might, at first glance, seem [...]

Few events in life bring about such warm and wonderful feelings of anticipation as the announcement of a pregnancy. As soon as you and your family learned you were expecting, you naturally began [...]

“To the outside world we all grow old.  But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were.  We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes.  We remember [...]

“Whatever you do, you need courage.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson   Loss brings uninvited pain into our lives. In opening to the presence of the pain of your loss, in acknowledging the [...]

“We are all mirrors unto one another. Look into me and you will find something of yourself as I will of you.” — Walter Rinder   Love is a sacred partnership of communion with another human [...]