Bereavement and Funeral links
Good Funeral Guide – good advice on funeral planning
- decide how the body of your dead person will be cared for by whom
- make informed choices about products and services
- get best value for money
- read reviews of best funeral directors
- create a meaningful and memorable funeral ceremony
- create an end-of-life plan
- acquire some background information about death and dying, and find out where to learn more.
Bereavement Advice Centre is a free helpline and web-based information service provided by Independent Trust Corporation. They give practical information and advice on the many issues and procedures that face us after the death of someone close.
They welcome calls from the bereaved and the professionals and volunteers who support them. Bereavement Advice Centre helps many people every day and aims to give straightforward, useful advice when you need it.
Tel: 0800 634 9494
Offers one-to-one bereavement counselling for any bereaved person, 14 yrs old or over, who needs support after a loss. The service is free but they are grateful for donations.
Bereavement support for young people aged 12 to 18, provided by trained volunteers aged under 25.
Tel: 0808 808 1677 (9.30am-5.00pm Mondays to Fridays).
Email: helpline@crusebereavementcare.org.uk
SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society)
28 Portland Place
Email: mailto:support@uk-sands.org,
The Babyloss website provides information and support online for anyone affected by the death of a baby during pregnancy, at birth, or shortly afterwards.
PO Box 1168,
Email: support@babyloss.com
Helpline for affected by a death of any age, however long ago.
Tel: 0800 282986
Information and support, including legal advice, for relatives of people who have died in a road accident, or for those who have been injured.
Tel: 0845 4500 355 (9.00am-9.00pm 7 days a week).
A safe, confidential environment in which survivors of suicide bereavement may share and work through their pain.
Helpline: 0870 241 3337,
Befriending and support group for parents and families who have lost either one or both twins.
Funeral Services Guide – For One-Stop Independent Bereavement Advice
Funeral Services One-stop Guide to finding quality service providers, independent advice on prepaid plans, putting affairs in order and bereavement issues.
Counselling Ddirectory.org.
Grief Recovery.co.uk Carole Batchelor – Certified Grief Recovery Specialist
Once the funeral is over many people feel lost – what next? Unlike therapy where people are told to go away for months before they can start to heal Grief Recovery can start immediately. It is an action plan to help you move beyond loss and can be effective immediately after a loss or many decades later. 01234 862218
From the US Death for Beginners Your No-Nonsense, Money-Saving Guide to Planning for the Inevitable
Death for beginners
Scattering Ashes is a fan of the following related funeral sites:
Because a good life deserves a good ending and to be remembered properly. My Last Song features a Lifebox to store the important details of your life; advice on farewell music; and advice on end of life issues.
- To store the information required by your close family and executor when you die, or in the final stages of an illness. Digital convenience!
- To store your personal details, life story, photographs, secrets, achievements, family and friends so future generations have an accurate insight into your life and times. Digital immortality!
Based in Totnes in Devon the Green Funeral Company to offer an ecological alternative to traditional funerals – they are in the Good Funeral Guide too!
For direct cremation services from a lovely company in the London M25 area we recommend – Poppy’s funerals – also in the Good Funeral Guide.
For a wonderful celebrant operating in the mildands region – Marc Oxley Secular funerals
Blue Sky Goodbye – sky dive and scattering in the US www.blueskygoodbye.com