Charles Cowling

The Good Funeral Guide

Everything you need to know -- Everything you need to do

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Good Funeral Guide is the first ever independent consumer guide to the funeral industry. It is for anyone who: - needs to arrange a funeral for someone now - has sick or elderly relatives or friends and knows that a funeral is imminent - wants to find a good funeral director and have some say in the funeral itself - wants to make future arrangements for their own funeral - would like to learn about deaths and funerals Authoritative, impartial and empowering, it is indispensable for those who don't want a conventional religious ceremony and invaluable for those who do. This is a book we will all need - probably at least twice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 233mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781472975942
• ISBN-10: 1472975944
• Artikelnr.: 57109468

Autorenporträt

Charles Cowling

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. What's in this guide?
2. Take your time
3. Take charge
4. Take stock
5. Why do we have funerals?
6. What is a green funeral?
7. Burial or cremation?
8. Cremation
9. Burial
10. Decision time - burial or cremation?
11. What happens when we die?
12. Caring for the body - why would you want to?
13. Caring for the body - what needs to be done?
14. Caring for the body - doing it all yourself
15. Embalming
16. Going to see someone who has died
17. Decision time - caring for the body
18. Style your funeral
19. The crematorium and other funeral venues
20. Who will lead the funeral ceremony?
21. A life-centred funeral
22. Do it your way
23. Can a funeral be fun?
24. Set your goals
25. Choose your ingredients
26. Create a sense of occasion
27. Who will be the host?
28. Decision time - celebrant and ceremony
29. Construct the ceremony
30. Tribute-writing tips
31. Funeral food
32. Funeral directors - what are they like and what do they know?
33. Should funeral directors be regulated?
34. Funeral directors - what do they do?
35. Funeral directors - what do they cost?
36. Funeral directors - telling them apart
37. Funeral directors - find out who's out there
38. Decision time - buy only what you want
39. 101 coffins and a shroud
40. Final rides - hearses
41. Marking the spot - memorials
42. What to do with the ashes?
43. What does dying feel like?
44. Planning your own death and funeral