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Funeral Etiquette
Like everything in society, funeral • Sign the register book – The family
etiquette and what is expected of you will keep the register book as a
has evolved over time. As always memento for years. Be sure to include
common sense and good discretion your full name and relationship to the
is the best guide to proper funeral deceased.
etiquette. Here are a few do’s and
don’t’s of funeral etiquette. • Give a gift – You don’t need to go
overboard with your gift, after all it
Do the following at a Funeral: is the thought that counts. Suitable
• Express your condolences – It’s not gifts include; flowers, a donation to
easy to come up with the words to the charity of the family’s choice, a
offer sympathy to someone who has home-cooked meal or tray, or you can
just lost a loved one. You don’t need make a commitment of service to the
to be a poet, simply saying something family at a later date. A commitment
like “I am sorry for your loss, my of service can be something as simple
thoughts and prayers are with you and as cooking them dinner, or offering to
your family” is enough. If you can’t be clean up their house, any of the “little”
at a funeral service in person, sending things that may be neglected while a
a card or leaving a message on a family deals with death. Make sure
memorial website is a perfect way to you provide a signed card so the family
express your sympathy. knows who gave the gift.
• Dress appropriately – Gone are the • Keep in Touch – You may feel that the
days of dressing up in all black for a family needs their space and time to
funeral, but jeans and a t-shirt is not grieve, but a simple phone call or note
exactly acceptable either. Wearing after the funeral lets the family know
what you would wear for a wedding you care. With social networking,
or a job interview would be the most leaving a quick note is as simple as a
appropriate. click of a mouse. The months following
a death is when grieving friends and
family need the most support.
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