Personalization of Funerals and the Healing Process
Many changes have evolved in the long history of funeral service.
Trends have come, and trends have gone.
One trend that has entered the funeral scene is that of personalization.
Personalization can take on any number of forms.
Some wish to bring items that the deceased particularly liked, while others prefer to focus on displaying articles that define the true character of the individual.
Funeral directors welcome and encourage families to celebrate the life of their loved ones.
We routinely provide tables and easels to enable families to appropriately display their memorabilia in a tasteful and dignified manner.
Personalization can also be achieved in other ways.
Music by the deceased's favorite artist can be played.
Poems that he or she treasured, or found comfort in, can be incorporated into the service.
Register books and memorial folders can often share a theme of a particular interest that the loved one enjoyed in life, such as hunting, fishing, motorcycling.
Even professional sports emblems can sometimes be incorporated.
Casket suppliers and urn manufacturers have also been innovative in enabling families to select such things as customized head panels or corner emblems.
Urns and even jewelry items can come in various forms that convey the things their loved one enjoyed in life.
Sharing these items truly helps to convey the story of the person's life to those attending the visitation and funeral.
More importantly, it serves as a very beneficial tool in the grief and healing process.
It helps by allowing the survivors the opportunity to go through photo albums of happy times that they shared and enjoyed with their loved one.
It gives a family the chance to give real thought and consideration to items to be taken for display.
Most importantly, this process stimulates conversation and dialog among the family.
It gives a chance to reminisce about joyful occasions and the chance to re-live some significant times that were shared with the deceased.
These can often bring laughter as well as tears.
Both are truly helpful in the healing process.
We certainly encourage families to memorialize their loved one through personalization, because they will reap added benefits in the healing process.
Trends have come, and trends have gone.
One trend that has entered the funeral scene is that of personalization.
Personalization can take on any number of forms.
Some wish to bring items that the deceased particularly liked, while others prefer to focus on displaying articles that define the true character of the individual.
Funeral directors welcome and encourage families to celebrate the life of their loved ones.
We routinely provide tables and easels to enable families to appropriately display their memorabilia in a tasteful and dignified manner.
Personalization can also be achieved in other ways.
Music by the deceased's favorite artist can be played.
Poems that he or she treasured, or found comfort in, can be incorporated into the service.
Register books and memorial folders can often share a theme of a particular interest that the loved one enjoyed in life, such as hunting, fishing, motorcycling.
Even professional sports emblems can sometimes be incorporated.
Casket suppliers and urn manufacturers have also been innovative in enabling families to select such things as customized head panels or corner emblems.
Urns and even jewelry items can come in various forms that convey the things their loved one enjoyed in life.
Sharing these items truly helps to convey the story of the person's life to those attending the visitation and funeral.
More importantly, it serves as a very beneficial tool in the grief and healing process.
It helps by allowing the survivors the opportunity to go through photo albums of happy times that they shared and enjoyed with their loved one.
It gives a family the chance to give real thought and consideration to items to be taken for display.
Most importantly, this process stimulates conversation and dialog among the family.
It gives a chance to reminisce about joyful occasions and the chance to re-live some significant times that were shared with the deceased.
These can often bring laughter as well as tears.
Both are truly helpful in the healing process.
We certainly encourage families to memorialize their loved one through personalization, because they will reap added benefits in the healing process.