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Loving Memory Christmas Gifts

A guide to Christmas memorial ideas and memorial Christmas gifts in loving memory of someone who has died, including Christmas memorial baubles and ornaments.

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10 Inspirational Quotations About Grief

A guide to comforting and inspirational quotes about grief, bereavement & loss, from C.S Lewis and Helen Keller to Julian Barnes and Stephen Colbert

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10 books for children about death and grief

10 children's books that help them to understand death and loss, with advice on coping with grief and sadness after the death of a grandparent or other loved one.

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Online Pricing Is Now Available On Funeral Guide

Funeral Guide now offers clear and comprehensive pricing on its funeral director listings as well as accurate cost and availability information for over 2,300 cemeteries and 275 crematoriums

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Remembrance Day

A guide to Remembrance Day & Remembrance Sunday, with information on the Poppy Appeal, two minute silence, Festival of Remembrance and remembrance services

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Funeral Poems for Mum

A selection of the best funeral poems for a mother as well some shorter quotes and readings

Funeral Expenses Payment Increase in 2020

The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that the value of the Funeral Expenses Payment for eligible benefits claimants will increase to £1,000.

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To Absent Friends Remembrance Festival

A guide to the To Absent Friends Remembrance Festival in Scotland, with information about what the festival is about & what happens during it.

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A guide to the history and meaning of Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, with information on traditions, festivals, and food in Mexico and around the world, including art, costumes, face paint and sugar skulls

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Baby Loss Awareness Week & Wave of Light

A guide to Baby Loss Awareness Week and the international remembrance event it culminates in - Wave of Light

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Grief-Therapy Dogs and Pet Therapy at Funerals

A guide to grief-therapy dogs & pet-therapy at funerals & memorial services

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Famous Funeral Paintings

A guide to famous depictions of funerals in art, including ‘A Burial at Ornans’ by Gustave Courbet, ‘The Funeral of Shelley’ by Louis Edouard Fournier and ‘A Funeral: Tribute to Oskar Panizza’ by George Grosz

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Funeral Train

A guide to funeral trains, with information on funeral train services & famous funeral trains, including the London Necropolis Railway Line & London Necropolis Railway Station & George H.W. Bush’s funeral train

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What Is Danse Macabre

A guide to the meaning of danse macabre, or the dance of death, in art, music, and literature, from the Black Death until the present, including works by Holbein, Saint-Saëns, and Liszt

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Best Funeral Songs for Dad

We run down the most popular songs for a father’s funeral and some of the meanings behind them