When you lose someone you care about it is very difficult to think straight and still try and find what you need to celebrate their life. One of the things I found most comforting was specially written poems for funerals - it made speaking in public much easier at a time when my emotions were running high. In my search I came across a few ideas that helped me - I hope they will help you too.
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep is one of the best things I found when I really needed some help. It is full of wonderful poems for funerals, or there are Readings if you prefer. It has all the well known poems that you just can't lay your hands on when you are fraught and dealing with everything else. What I also like is that there are loads of less well known poems that are good for cards or when you don't know what to say in a sympathy letter.
There's also a lot of help on writing a Eulogy if you want to do it yourself, even announcements and obituaries which can be so difficult to deal when you have so little time to think about what you want to say.
In Memory Of You by Kirsti Dyer
In Memory Of You
http://www.perfectfuneral.com For My Dad who died 33 years ago this month
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Suitable Readings and Poems
Poems For Funerals & Those Who Grieve
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Do Not Go Gentle: Poems for Funerals
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Poems and Readings for Funerals
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Writing A Eulogy
Sometimes you do actually want or need to create the words yourself and that can be a truly daunting task as I have discovered. It's one of those things that is really easy when you know how, but until you do - just the thought is enough to scare you. A good friend pointed me in the direction of A Eulogy to Remember. This gave me step by step guidance on how to prepare a Eulogy and most important, how to prepare myself - remembering to breathe is really important! Stop All The Clocks
Funeral Blues
Here is me reading out a poem written by W.H.Auden and used in the film 4 weddings and a funneral.
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The Pefect Funeral
The Perfect Funeral is a site designed to help you deal with all those things that crop up at when you are least able to organise yourself.
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If you found anything particularly helpful when dealing with the loss of someone you care about, please share it with us. I will be adding more to this lens as time goes on and it would be nice to add the things you have found helpful.
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geeibee
A lovely lens, clearly put together with a lot of thought. Posted November 08, 2007 |
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JessieH
Very sensitively done. Thank you Posted November 07, 2007 |
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SansFaim
Having recently lost my father, I found this lens very helpful.It is often difficult to come to terms with these things and sometimes words coming from a third party can be very comforting. Posted October 23, 2007 |
