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+ | Options available. | ||
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+ | As you will see, there is a lot to think about and decide following a death in the family. In this section, we introduce | ||
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+ | You have four broad choices: | ||
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+ | a traditional funeral, followed by the interment; | ||
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+ | a traditional funeral, followed by a cremation; | ||
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+ | a woodland burial; | ||
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+ | cremation (with a short service at the Crematorium.) | ||
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+ | Within each of these four, there are further choices to be made. | ||
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+ | In consultation with the clergy person who will take the funeral, you can choose readings and hymns: and you may be invited to choose someone to speak about the deceased. You may have a choice about where in the cemetery or churchyard you would like the grave to be (local conditions vary a good deal on this) and you will certainly, perhaps later, have a choice about what appears on the headstone. (You will need to clear the text with the local clergy person: there have been a few cases recently where some difficulties have been raised about what have been held to be inappropriate phrases.) | ||
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+ | There will be choices about the arrangements at the crematorium ( nos 2 and 4 above). The Undertaker will consult you about these. The most important, which you may wish to discuss with other close relatives, is what to do with the ashes, a small sample of which will be delivered to you a day or two after the ceremony. | ||
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+ | There are many choices of detail in a woodland burial. These are discussed in our entry on Woodland Burials on this site. Please refer to that. | ||
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+ | A very few people express the wish to be buried at sea. This is illegal; it only happens in the event of shipwreck or loss at sea - that is when the burial at sea is involuntary. |