The following websites can provide additional help and information to assist you with your bereavement and funeral planning.
FUNERAL PLANNING | |
* Funeral Wise | Wide ranging information from planning funerals, procedures, funeral etiquette and costs |
* Natural Death Centre | Independent Funeral Advice |
* Good Funeral Guide | Independent Funeral Advice |
* Funeral Map | Information on aspects of funeral processes and resources |
* The Ways We Say Goodbye | Study of 21st Century funeral customs in the UK |
RELIGIOUS & NON RELIGIOUS CONSIDERATIONS | |
* Humanist UK | Website for Humanist organisation |
* Pagan Federation | Pagan Burials & Ceremonies |
* Spiritualists National Union | Religious charity that supports Spiritualist Churches all across the United Kingdom. |
ALTERNATIVES TO CREMATION | |
* Resomation | ‘Water Cremation’ – Alternative to Flame Cremation & Burial |
* Promessa | Ecological Burial |
FUNERAL COSTS | |
* Government Site | Get help with funeral costs |
* Beyond Life | Information regarding funeral costs |
* Bereavement Payment | Government site |
BODY & ORGAN DONATIONS | |
* Human Tissue Authority | Find medical establishments |
* Organ Donation | Organ Donation NHS |
DIGITAL DEATH | |
* Digital Legacy Association | Assists with online digital legacy (e.g. Facebook etc). |
BURIAL GROUNDS | |
* Natural Death Centre | List of Burial Grounds |
* Fenns Meadow | N Shropshire: Meadow based Green Burial Ground |
* Westhope | Shropshire: Orchard based Green Burial Ground |
* S.S.R.P. | South Shropshire Remembrance Park: Woodland Based |
* Sacred Stones | Shropshire: Soulton Hall Long Barrow |
COUNSELLING & SUPPORT | |
* Bereavement Advice Centre | Help with all aspects of bereavement including legal and financial |
* Dying Matters | To help people cope with dying, death and bereavement |
* Marie Curie | Bereavement and counselling support |
* Child Bereavement UK | For any family, individual or organisation experiencing the loss of a child |
* Child Death Helpline | Help with the death of a child |
* Child Funeral Charity | Help with arranging and paying for a child’s funeral |
* SANDS | Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Charity |
* Cruse Bereavement Care | Support to children, young people and adults when someone dies |
* SCARD | Support and Care After Road Death and Injury |
* SAMM | Support After Murder & Manslaughter |
* UKSOBS | Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide |
* Winston’s Wish | Support to Children after the death of a Parent or Sibling |
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MEMORABILIA & CEREMONIAL | |
* Scattering Ashes | Solutions and Accoutrements for Ash Scattering |