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Reach out to others the first important step in the healing
Learn to ask for what you need. Your process.
family and friends want to help, so let
them know how. Turn to people you can What do funeral directors do?
trust for support and for information. Find They are the pillars that support the
people who will listen when you want to survivors during one of their most difficult
talk. Leave the scrapbook or photo album journeys through life. They care for the
out on the coffee table so others can family and safeguard and care for the
remember and share memories with you. deceased person. They fulfill the wishes
of the family by guiding them through and
You may want to talk to others who are fulfilling the funeral arrangements. The
grieving, consider joining a support funeral director is trained in embalming
group. Most groups are listed by subject in and restorative procedures required
the phone directory or through churches, by a funeral home, for traditional open
newspapers, hospitals, local health and casket viewing by family and friends.
social service agencies, the Chamber of They arrange and provide an orderly
Commerce or your local funeral home. series of events, culminating with the
You can learn and grow in common, yet final disposition of burial, entombment
different experiences. You do not have or cremation. The funeral director’s
to travel this journey alone. Life can have responsibility of properly filing the death
meaning again. certificate in order to receive permission
for final disposition is the first step which
FAQs allows the family to begin the process
of settling estate matters. The director
will advise the family as to the number
What purpose does a funeral serve? of certified death certificates needed to
It provides the family and friends with begin the process, as well as advising
a caring and supportive environment them on potential issues to be addressed
in which to share thoughts and feelings shortly after the final disposition. A
about the death. The funeral becomes growing number of funeral directors are
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