What is a celebrant?
What is a celebrant?
An independent celebrant is someone who works with you and your chosen funeral director to help you and family through the process of creating a funeral or memorial service for a loved one. My role includes creating an order of service with you, writing and delivering a eulogy (or helping you to do that if you prefer) and generally offering support. Or, if you’re interested in planning your own funeral, I work with you around thinking about what you’d like to happen.
End of Life Planning
Increasingly, people at different ages & stages of life are interested in planning what will happen after they die, making sure they are represented in a way that is authentic. Perhaps putting down in writing stories about their life, choosing the music they like. Or securing the right person to help their partner or children cope after the event of their death. I would be honoured to work with you to do this.
Trying to make decisions and sort out all the tasks that need doing around someone’s death can be really challenging, when you feel least able to cope. It’s especially painful if you’ve lost the person who would normally be there with you. It can help to feel you’ve got someone ‘on your side’ to support you.
Death leaves Us homesick, who behind,
Except that it is gone
Are ignorant of its Concern
As if it were not born.
Emily Dickinson
Loss and grief
An individual human existence should be like a river – small at first, narrowly confined within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, and the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man or woman who can see his or her life in this way will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things they care for will continue.
Bertrand Russell