Useful Resources and Support
“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans,or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you,whenever it wants to. In that regard, grief has a lot in common with love”
Elizabeth Gilbert.
The Compassionate Friends www.tcf.org.uk
The Compassionate Friends - supporting bereaved parents and their families
Good Funeral Guide www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk
Funeral advice
The Natural Death Centre http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/
Independent funeral advice…lifting the lid on dying and funerals.
Dying matters https://www.dyingmatters.org/
A coalition of individual and organisational members across England and Wales, which aims to help people talk more openly about dying, death and bereavement, and to make plans for the end of life.
Much love https://www.muchloved.com/
The online tribute charity, your place to remember someone special and fundraise in their memory.
Final Fling https://www.finalfling.com/
For people who like to be in control of life and death decisions.
Death Cafe www.deathcafe.com
Where you can gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death.
The Good Grief Trust https://www.thegoodgrieftrust.org
Help & hope in one place.
Life Death Whatever www.lifedeathwhatever.com
An empowered approach to death, dying, life, living, illness, adversity and grief.
UK Funeral Videography - Shaun Foulds www.ukfuneralvideoservices.com
Videographer and funeral live streaming.
WhiteBalloon www.whiteballoon.co.uk/
Funeral resources and ideas.
Doing Death www.doingdeath.com
Conversations about death, dying life and love. For a life better lived.
A Queer Funeral Guide by Ash Hayhurst PDF
Ash Hayhurst, has written a helpful guide focused on inclusion and diversity for LGBTQ people and their families who are planning a funeral or concerned about their future funeral arrangements.
Articles
Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You (BRAINPICKINGS.ORG)
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/10/17/elizabeth-gilbert-ted-podcast-love-loss
How to do a funeral by Emma Freud
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jan/04/emma-freud-guide-how-to-do-funeral?
I attended my own funeral
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/6eb7d54e-41db-4927-9e1c-def8ddacf59e
David Bowie pure cremation
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/sep/08/david-bowie-direct-cremations-cost-funeral?
Are we ready to face death without religion?
What song do you want to die to?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/27/cremate-sound-disco-inferno-song-die-funerals-death?
“The footprints we leave behind are measured by the love we’ve given,the lives of family and friends we’ve touched and been part of,and by the many rich and treasured memories they keep long after we’ve gone”
~ Jim Al-Khalili ~