Help & Resources

• When Someone Dies
  • Next of Kin: All You Need to Know
  • How to Donate Your Body to Science
  • What to Do When A Child Dies
  • Getting a Medical Certificate of Cause of Death
  • What to Do When Someone Dies Abroad
  • What to Do When Someone Dies
  • What To Do When Someone Dies At Home
  • How to Choose a Funeral Director
  • Registering a Death
• Funeral Guide Services
  • Funeral Guide Obituaries
  • Funeral Guide Memorial Book
  • Funeral Guide Listings
  • Funeral Guide Reviews
• Bereavement Support
  • Coping with Bereavement
    • Coping with Bereavement From Suicide
    • A Guide to Grief Therapy and Bereavement Counselling
    • What is Anticipatory Grief?
    • Coping with Feelings of Relief During Bereavement
    • Coping with Grief After Miscarriage
    • Coping with Hurtful Words and Attitudes During Grief
    • Coping with Grief After Stillbirth
    • Coping with the Loss of a Best Friend
    • Coping with the Loss of a Patient
    • Coping with the Loss of a Child
    • Coping with the Loss of a Brother or Sister
    • Coping with the Loss of a Grandparent
    • Coping with the Loss of a Parent
    • Coping with the Loss of a Spouse or Partner
    • 10 Practical Ways To Cope With Grief
  • The Grieving Process
    • The Six ‘R’s of Mourning
    • Reconstruction of Meaning
    • The Four Tasks of Grieving
    • The Dual Process Model
    • Understanding the Grieving Process
    • The Five Stages of Grief
    • Tonkin’s Model of Grief
  • When to Get Bereavement Support
  • Helping the Bereaved
    • Supporting a Bereaved Teenager
    • Supporting Someone With a Learning Disability Through Grief
    • Supporting an Elderly Person Coping with Grief
    • Supporting a Parent Coping with Miscarriage or Stillbirth
    • Supporting a Parent Who Has Lost a Child
    • Knowing When A Friend Needs Help
    • Supporting a Bereaved Child
    • Supporting a Bereaved Friend or Relative
  • Bereavement Support and Grief Counselling Organisations
• Government Services
  • Government Benefits
    • Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay
    • The Funeral Expenses Payment
    • Guardian’s Allowance
    • Widowed Parent’s Allowance
    • Bereavement Allowance
    • Bereavement Payment
    • Bereavement Support Payment
  • Who to Contact When Someone Dies
  • Coroner Services
    • What Is A Coroner's Inquest?
    • What Is A Post-Mortem Examination?
    • What Does a Coroner Do?
  • Organ Donation and Tissue Donation
  • Government Licences
    • How to Get an Exhumation Licence
    • How to Get a Burial at Sea Licence in the UK
• Arranging a Funeral
  • Funeral Guides
    • Funeral Readings for Dad
    • Burial Clothes: Dressing The Deceased
    • What to Write on a Wreath: Funeral Flower Message Examples
    • A Guide to Funeral Flower Etiquette
    • Inscriptions for Headstones
    • Casket or Coffin: What’s the Difference?
    • What Can You Put in a Coffin?
    • Grave Maintenance and Gravestone Cleaning
    • What is Embalming?
    • DIY Funerals
    • What is a Celebrant?
    • A Guide to Being a Pallbearer
    • A Guide to Funeral Etiquette
    • How to Write an Obituary
    • What is an Obituary?
    • A Guide to Funeral Flowers & Arrangements
    • How to Organise a Wake
    • How to Choose a Headstone
    • How to Choose an Urn
    • How to Choose a Coffin or Casket
    • A Guide to Memorial Services
    • A Guide to Humanist & Non-religious Funerals
    • A Guide to Woodland Burial & Green Funerals
    • A Guide to Cremation Costs & Arrangements
    • A Guide to Burial Costs & Arrangements
    • Memorial trees and other natural memorials
    • A Guide to Water Cremation
    • What To Take to a Funeral?
  • Planning the Service
    • How to Plan a Funeral Service
    • How to Write a Eulogy
    • What is a Committal Service?
    • Hearses, Funeral Carriages and Cars
    • Funeral Hymns
    • Funeral Poems
    • A Guide to Funeral Processions
    • How to Write a Eulogy: Funeral Speech Examples
    • Funeral Foods
  • Repatriation of a Loved One for a Funeral Abroad
  • Arranging a Funeral
  • Religious Funerals
    • Spiritualist Funerals
    • Sikh Funerals
    • Quaker Funerals
    • Pagan Funerals
    • Orthodox Funerals
    • Muslim Funerals
    • Jewish Funerals
    • Hindu Funerals
    • Church of England Funerals
    • Catholic Funerals
    • Buddhist Funerals
    • Baptist Funerals
  • Funeral Glossary of Terms
  • Help with Funeral Costs
  • The Cost of a Funeral
  • Could a Benevolent Fund Help You Through Bereavement?
  • Buying a Burial Plot
  • What is a Pauper’s Funeral? Public Health Funerals Explained
  • What is a Mausoleum?
  • What to Write in a Funeral Thank You Card
  • Burying Ashes: All You Need to Know
  • When to hold a funeral
  • What is a Chapel of Rest?
  • What Happens at a Funeral
• Managing Your Estate
  • Wills and Probate
    • What Is Probate?
    • Letters of Administration
    • Do You Need a Probate Solicitor?
    • How to Write a Will
    • Contesting a Will
    • Finding a Will
    • What is Intestacy?
    • What is a Bequest?
  • How to Handle an Estate After a Death
  • Letters of Administration
  • Inheritance Tax
    • Reduce Inheritance Tax by Donating to Charity
    • Inheritance Tax Reliefs
    • Inheritance Tax Relief for Gifts
    • Inheritance Tax
  • Roles of Executor and Administrator
  • Removing and Substituting Executors
  • Living Wills: A Guide to Advance Directives
  • A Guide to Pet Care After the Death of an Owner
  • Does Debt Die With You?
  • What is a Lasting Power of Attorney?
  • Digital Legacies
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