Simple ingredients make a funeral feel happily ever after

 

1.     Location, location, location. Inside or outside, weather permitting.

2.     Find someone with a spiritual bent to ease spirits and address loss. It doesn’t have to be clergy, but often they have the best language for the situation.

3.     Music can build a nest around everybody pulling them close in grief and lifting spirits in memory.

4.     Story. Any and all shared story about the deceased is helpful to mourners looking for a sense of belonging in community at the time of loss. A story can make you laugh and cry and it should honor the soul that is gone. Spoken words combined with social participation grants us a structure to mark the milestone along the arrow of Time.

5.     Food- It is important to nourish our bodies as we grieve and sometimes the preparation of food is devastatingly mundane for those close to the deceased. Donations of food are a treasured balm to ease the suffering and remind us of the need to live.

    6.             Flowers and other additions of nature remind us of ephemeral lifespans and add             beauty to the setting.

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