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Preface

About the author

Part 1 About the Funeral Service

1: What you should know about funerals

What are the celebrant’s responsibilities?

Types of ceremonies and services

Other elements of funeral services

Conducting a special and professional service

Challenging situations for celebrants

Part 2 Preparing the Service

2: The interview: creating a portrait

The celebrant’s role

Making initial contact

Meeting the bereaved

How much time should you allow?

What questions should you ask?

Discussing the service

The final magic question

Interview checklist

Offering service suggestions

3: The opening: setting the tone

Introducing yourself

An opening reading

The introduction

Thoughts on life and death

4: Readings, eulogies and tributes: the heart of the service

Eulogies

Tributes and readings

Religious readings and prayers

Summing up afterwards

5: The committal

Readings prior to committal

The committal process

Closing words

Benediction

Part 3 Sample Services

6: An elderly lady

Starting the service

An opening reading

Introduction

Words to soften grief

A grandchild’s tribute

Eulogy

Readings and tributes

Committal

Closing music

Benediction

7: An elderly gentleman

Starting ther service

An opening reading

Introduction

Words to soften grief

Words for the living

The children’s tribute

Eulogy

Readings and tributes

Committal

Closing music

Final reading

Benediction

8: Tragic deaths

Service for a young man

Service for a teenager

Service for a suicide

Service for a victim of murder

Service for a lonely death

Reading for a drug-related death

9: Infant deaths

Service for an infant

Service for a stillborn baby

10: Servicemen and women, and Rotarians

RSL service

Tribute for a serviceman or woman

Service for a Legatee

Service for a Rotarian

11: Special services

Christmas memorial service

Tree-planting memorial

Service for the internment of ashes

Part 4 Some Inspiration

12: Inspirational words and phrases

Phrases for people and personalities

Expressions of loss and comfort

Quotations on life and death

A final word

Acknowledgments

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