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Family and friends getting together to is who will be officiating the service.
honor a loved one’s life is one of the You can choose to have a minister (or
most important steps in the grieving other religious leader) or a celebrant
and healing process. You may opt to officiate the service. The difference
have a traditional religious or military between a minister and a celebrant is
service, or as more and more people a celebrant is non-denominational.
are doing, you can choose to have a
non-traditional ‘life celebration’. Whatever you choose, some sort of
service is expected from family and
Decisions need to be made about the friends of the deceased. We are here
location of the funeral, the choice of to help create a unique and memora-
casket or urn and who the pallbearers ble service that people will remember
should be. Another decision to make fondly for years to come.
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