Individually Yours

19/06/2025

18/06/2025

Have you had experience of someone you know/ love having a direct cremation?

What did you think of the process?

🔥 URGENT CALL TO ACTION: WE NEED YOUR HELP 🔥

From The Good Funeral Guide CIC

We’ve spent hundreds of unpaid hours creating a careful, fair, and vital questionnaire about people’s real experiences of direct cremation.

We’re doing this to gather the evidence no one else will. Not the advertisers. Not regulators. Not the big-money providers.

🟢 But we have a problem: after a month, we only have 47 responses.

That’s not enough to speak truth to power.
That’s not enough to challenge £32 million in advertising spend.
That’s not enough to protect the public from being misled.

👉 If you care about funeral truth, choice, dignity, or transparency — we need you. Today.

Please:
1. Take 5 minutes right now to share this link on your website, your socials, your email list, your client newsletter.
2. Tell people why it matters.
3. Don’t just like this post — act.

📩 Here’s the link to share:
https://forms.gle/3zP8Uf1m37HBRT4RA
(or go to the “direct cremation” tab on the Good Funeral Guide website: https://www.goodfuneralguide.co.uk/direct-cremation)

Funerals matter.

Help us evidence it.

07/06/2025

Witnessing a coffin going into a cremator.

If you want to, you can do this.

It’s called ‘charging’ the coffin, and for some faiths, witnessing the charge is an essential part of the funeral ritual.

But it’s not something confined to faith groups.

If the person arranging the cremation agrees, and with advance notice to the crematorium, it’s possible for anyone, of any faith or of none, to watch the coffin go into the cremator.

For some, this accompaniment of their person until the very last possible moment is a final fulfilment, a completion of the physical journey they’ve shared in life. For others, it may feel too much, or not necessary. It’s a very personal decision, but we feel that everyone organising a cremation should know that this final moment is possible, even if it’s not something that feels right for you.

One of the GFG directors invited their brothers to witness their mother’s coffin being charged. Although reluctant at first, both were mesmerised by the beauty and power of this final moment, and were so grateful to have shared it. They hadn’t realised it was allowed - and, to be honest, hadn’t even thought about whether it might be.

We want everyone to know that yes, it’s possible, and yes, you’re allowed.

07/06/2025

Another way you can be involved in the farewell of a loved one.

Your Funeral Director will always be there to support you, talk to them about your ideas and wishes.

23/05/2025

The brief for the florist today?

‘Can you make it wild?’

The florist asked, ’Did Dad have a favourite colour?’

‘No! He was colour blind. Do what you like!’

Challenge accepted and smashed 🎯🌹🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼🥀🪻

03/05/2025

I love this ♥️

I’ve a few new followers so I thought I’d say hi! 👋🏼 I’m a West Sussex Soul midwife - also called an end-of-life doula… I’m a non-medical professional who provides emotional, spiritual, and practical support to individuals and their loved ones during the dying process. Much like a birth doula supports people during childbirth, a death doula helps people navigate the experience of dying with dignity, peace and comfort.

• Offering companionship and emotional support to the dying person.
• Assisting with legacy projects (e.g., letters, memory books, or recordings).
• Helping to create a peaceful and meaningful environment.
• Supporting families before, during, and after death.
• Facilitating conversations about end-of-life wishes, advance directives, and funeral planning.

04/03/2025

A very peaceful way to remember this year 💕

We are holding a mothers day silent service in St Richards chapel.

A chance for you to come, sit for as long or little as you like. Time to reflect & remember your mum.

You are also invited to bring a picture along and place it on our memory wall with with your own personal tribute.

Our memory wall will be located in St Michael's Book of Remembrance and will be open for your pictures from 10th March untill 31st of March.

02/03/2025

21/02/2025

A little bit of tartan worn today in honour of a legend 💕

12/12/2024

As a celebrant, my role is to stand beside families, shoulder to shoulder, as they say farewell to a loved one, often in heartbreaking circumstances.

I’m frequently asked,’ How do you do this without crying? How do you keep it all together?’

Well, I do cry, I do lose it. But not when I’m with you. I cry when I rehearse my lines time and time again to make sure I can say the things that you want to say, but can’t. It’s an honour to do that for you, no matter how hard it is for us all at times.

Tonight though, I was like any other. Tonight I attended the Christmas Carol Service. The chapel looked so beautiful. So serene.

We sang carols, listened to readings from Reverend Virginia Smith and then we lit candles of remembrance. That part gets me every time. The tears flowed.

Remembering

My Dad, my Nan, Nick and Eileen. In my thoughts often, in my heart forever.

Thank you for a very special chance to remember with love ♥️

04/07/2024

Today we held a very small, personal farewell in the garden at Doran Court.

The sun was shining, we raised a glass of red in a toast to a loved one and we sat for a while after our very beautiful little service, hearing even more stories of the life we had been celebrating.

It really was a very special day ♥️

There are no rules about a funeral service and there are so many ways to make your farewell to a loved one so personal.

Of course, it always helps when your Funeral Director also loves the personal touch 🥰

With thanks to for their care, thought, flexibility and their beautiful garden 🌷🌸🌻