The Complete Guide to Funeral Planning
In summary, this book covers:
- Deciding what sort of funeral you would like and how to go about arranging the day
- Understanding grief and how your loved ones will feel when you’re gone
- Looking at different religious traditions and beliefs so you can learn from other cultures
- Choosing a fun funeral from the huge range of available options.
Table of contents
Part 1 Grave Concerns Over Funerals
- It’s Your Funeral, So What Do You Know About It?
- Getting Your Last Rites Dead Right
- Zapping the men in black
- Ashes to ashes
- Digging deep for funeral costs
- Insurance gives no assurances
- Opting for DIY funerals
- Breaking with tradition - UK style
- Cook’s coffin kitchen
- Breaking with tradition - US style
2. Stripping For The Dead And Other Funeral Traditions
- Jewish funerals
- Christian funerals
- Islamic funerals
- Hindu traditions
- Sikh funerals
- Buddhist funerals
- Strippers dance for the dead
3. Bidding A Fond Farewell To Your Loved Ones
- Planning a funeral
- A family affair
- Optional extras
- Losing the plot
- Coughing up dead money
- Diners dying for a meal
- Burning desire for cremations
- Living funerals
- Pulling out the stops for organ donation
- Growing evidence at the body farm
Part 2 Putting the Fun in to Funerals
4. You Only Get One Chance To Make A Last Impression
- Putting nails in to your own coffin
- Flat pack funerals with mail order coffins
- Wicked wickerwork
- Creative coffins
- Shrouded in mystery
- Urning your last resting place
- Lights out, camera, action!
5. Places You Want To Be Seen Dead
- Hot ways to dispose of ashes
- Is it legal to just scatter ashes?
- Going out with a bang
- Dust to dust
- In for a deep end
- Diamonds are forever
- Stars in their eyes
- Elemental, my dear Watson
- Heart to art
- Stuck in the birdhouse
- The write stuff
- Ice, ice baby
Part 3 Information For Funeral Planners
6. So Much To Do And So Little Time To Do It
- Pros and Cons of Funeral Plans
- Funeral plans
- Life assurance
- Savings plans
- Taking financial advice
- Funeral Cost Calculator
- The Final Countdown
- Personal information
- Funeral and medical expenses
- Dealing with personal affairs
- The big day
- Informing those that need to know
- Coping With Grief
- The Death Clock
- Top 10 Funeral tunes
- Top Web resources
