Useful Resources and Support

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?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/13/are-we-ready-to-confront-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?

 

Late Fragment

And did you get what

you wanted from this life, even so?

I did.

And what did you want?

To call myself beloved, to feel myself

beloved on the earth.

~ Raymond Carver