The Service

Many options to consider

Organising a funeral service usually includes the need to consider or choose:

  • a clergy member, a celebrant or someone known to you to lead the service.
  • who will carry the casket.
  • an appropriate person(s) to prepare a eulogy
  • the musica slide/photographic show
  • the order of service or ‘handout’ for the service.

Increasingly, funeral services are seen as a way of celebrating the person's life. Often family and friends want to be more involved in the service with music, slide shows and several eulogies.

Number of Services?

You are able to choose what you want to have in the funeral you are organising. People usually choose one of the following options:

1. No mourners, basic funeral

A separate gathering can be organised to honour the deceased

2. Single service

One service at a chapel, church, crematorium, graveside or other location

3. Two services

A service in a chapel or church followed by a procession (cortage) to the cemetery or crematorium and a brief final service.

Service leader

The service can be led by clergy, a celebrant or the family and friends. Increasingly, families and friends wish to be more involved in the service.

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  • When we recently arranged the funeral for my father-in-law we were surprised that we needed to provide information which, only be chance, we could readily put out hands on immediately. The information was required for the application to cremate, and a questionnaire which may have related to him having died in a nursing home. I know my parents would not necessarily have the information about their parents readily to hand. It would be helpful if you could either post the forms that have to e completed or the information to have to hand, so it can be found an put somewhere accessible as a part of the planning.

    Posted by Kerry, 08/07/2009 4:52pm (1 year ago)

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