The good funeral guide / / Charles Cowling

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785500003321
• Autore: Cowling Charles
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2010]; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-282-87398-9; 9786612873980; 1-4411-3322-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 393.9
• Soggetti: Funeral rites and ceremonies - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 What's in this guide?; 2 Take your time; 3 Take charge; 4 Take stock; 5 Why do we have funerals?; 6 What is a green funeral?; 7 Burial or cremation?; 8 Cremation; 9 Burial; 10 Decision time - burial or cremation?; 11 What happens when we die?; 12 Caring for the body - why would you want to?; 13 Caring for the body - what needs to be done?; 14 Caring for the body - doing it all yourself; 15 Embalming; 16 Going to see someone who has died; 17 Decision time - caring for the body; 18 Style your funeral; 19 The crematorium and other funeral venues; 20 Who will lead the funeral ceremony?21 A life-centred funeral; 22 Do it your way; 23 Can a funeral be fun?; 24 Set your goals; 25 Choose your ingredients; 26 Create a sense of occasion; 27 Who will be the host?; 28 Decision time - celebrant and ceremony; 29 Construct the ceremony; 30 Tribute-writing tips; 31 Funeral food; 32 Funeral directors - what are they like and what do they know?; 33 Should funeral directors be regulated?; 34 Funeral directors - what do they do?; 35 Funeral directors - what do they cost?; 36 Funeral directors - telling them apart; 37 Funeral directors - find out who's out there38 Decision time - buy only what you want; 39 101 coffins and a shroud; 40 Final rides - hearses; 41 Marking the spot - memorials; 42 What to do with the ; ashes?; 43 What does dying feel like?; 44 Planning your own death and funeral
• Sommario/riassunto: The Good Funeral Guide is the first ever independent consumer guide to the funeral industry. It is for anyone who: - needs to arrange a funeral for someone now - has sick or elderly relatives or friends and knows that a funeral is imminent - wants to find a good funeral director and have some say in the funeral itself - wants to make future arrangements for their own funeral - would like to learn about deaths and funerals Authoritative, impartial and empowering, it is indispensable for those who don't want a conventional religious ceremony and invaluable for those who do. This is a