Remembering From Afar
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Published 3 Apr 2020 in Trading Groups, Raising Awareness by Mark Adams
A funeral offers relatives and friends of those who have passed away the opportunity to remember and celebrate the life of their loved one.
Sadly, current restrictions mean that it is not always possible to attend a funeral in person, and our colleagues have been finding solutions for the bereaved to enable them to still take part in the funeral and mark the passing of the one they hold dear.
This area of Colleague Connect allows Funeral Group colleagues to record innovative ways they have agreed with clients so other colleagues can benefit from shared knowledge.
We also welcome any other ideas from Team Midcounties colleagues as we aim to make the funeral services for those who pass away in these difficult times as special as possible.
Ideas for content:
Our service sheet provider is also providing envelopes for us, and the family are posting copies of the service sheets to those they thought would attend that contain Forget Me Not seeds for the recipients to plant in their gardens in memory of the deceased. 
The funeral service was at 3.00PM at the crematorium, so the family asked everyone to observe a minute’s silence at home.
Our local crematorium has the Wesley system for music and video streaming and they have kindly reduced the cost to clients. Our family were able to forward the link to all of their friends who watched the service from home.
My clients had the idea of posting the piece of music (Monty Python) that was going to be played at the end of the service as a link on Facebook, and everyone listened to it at the funeral time.
We had to change to a graveside service. The family just had a short service, and have said that when we have organised the headstone they want to have a bigger celebration then.
All the neighbours came out and stood in their gardens clapping as the funeral left the house
