Funerals are a rite of passage with all the importance of a wedding or christening. It is a time to give thanks for the life of someone and a celebration of the gifts they have given us.
Whilst a time of great sadness, we some times forget that death may have come as a merciful release for someone who has suffered a long illness.
There is a great deal of planning in a funeral, an average of 40 man hours is spent by the Undertaker in making the preparations.
With funerals costing up to, and over one thousand pounds, you need to be sure that you can trust the firm making all the arrangements on your behalf.
Funerals should be as individual as you want.

                From the traditional-               To the "Green" option - A card board

               A full Church Service                 coffin in a pram at a greenburial site

Music is an important part of any funeral. We are able to arrange a soloist, choir and orchestra if needed. However recorded music is easily sourced from home or library.

Catering can be arranged as well, either in your own home or here in our unique function room.

Extracts from "The Meaning of Things "

by kind permission of A C Grayling

Applying Philosophy to life

Death

It is not that most humans, if they thought about it, would wish to live forever, at least in this world; Shaw's Methuselah suggests that endless existence would be

in tolerable. Rather, it is that death comes too soon for most of us, before our interest in the world, and in those we care about, is exhausted.

Because being dead is, on a naturalistic view, identical to being unborn, nothing about death makes it good or evil. It is only what it removes from us that makes it so. If it removes intolerable and interminable pain, it is good; if it removes opportunities, hopes, connections with the beloved, it is bad.

The fundamental question is how to deal with others' deaths. We grieve the loss of an element in what made our world meaningful. There is an unavoidable process of healing - of making whole - to be endured, a period of mourning. But the world is never entire after bereavement. We do not get over losses; we merely learn to live with them.

There is great consolation. Two facts - that the dead once lived; and that one loved them and mourned their loss - are inexpugnably part of the world's history. So the presence of those who lived can never be removed from time, which is to say that there is a kind of eternity after all.

Sorrow

But there are sources of consolation nevertheless. One is that the dead do not wish the living to linger in sorrow. Consider the following: think of those you care about; imagine them mourning when you die; and ask yourself how much sorrow you would wish them to bear.

The answer would surely be; neither too much, nor for too long