One Life Funeral Blog
Dying Matters – Leeds, an event aimed at encouraging people to talk more openly about death and dying, was held on Friday 20th May at Shine in Harehills. The day had been a long time in the [...]
On Friday May 20th One Life Ceremonies and The Fantastic Funeral Company are hosting ‘Dying Matters – Leeds’ a free event held a Shine on Harehills Road, aimed at encouraging people to talk more openly about and breaking the taboo surrounding death, dying and bereavement.
The afternoon event will run from [...]
Dying Matters is a national campaign and coalition, which has over 14,000 members, which aims to change public knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards death, dying and bereavement in the UK. This year May 16th – 22nd is Dying Matters Awareness Week which is aimed at encouraging people to talk more openly about death [...]
Not content with being buried in the ground the people of Sagada in the Philippines and the Bo people of southern China choose instead to put their deceased into handmade wooden coffins and suspending them from limestone cliffs.
Every wondered what to do with the ashes after a funeral apart from scattering them on your garden? Last year I met Mike Kelly and was really intrigued by his business of turning ashes into memorial diamonds, a way [...]
As the longest running radio soap The Archers celebrates it’s 60th year there has been an unprecedented blurring of realities moving from Radio 4 out to Twitter, Mustardland (The Archers messageboard), newspaper columns, forums and blogs. Across the world Archers fans have joined Ambridge in being [...]
Music at a Funeral
Choosing music is an important part of the funeral ceremony and is usually one of the first things the funeral director will ask you, if you haven’t made your choice yet don’t feel pressured into making a decision straight away, you can discuss you music [...]
A general misconception is that a Funeral Ceremony must be held at the crematorium or burial ground, in fact a Funeral can take place anywhere that you have permission.
Whilst it may seem more sensible to hold the ceremony at the place where the body will [...]
There’s nothing more fascinating to me than wandering around a deserted graveyard, taking in the peaceful atmosphere and decaying beauty of crumbling headstones and wilting flowers.
But what I enjoy most is looking out for the oddities, the [...]
Now I do love a good wander around a graveyard (just me then?), so when the opportunity to visit Undercliffe cemetery in Bradford came about it was hard to say no. Now Undercliffe Cemetery is not like your usual graveyard with modest headstones and wilting flowers; this unusual Victorian burial ground [...]
