Family Services/Ceremonies Toolkit
Best Practices
Cultural & Religious Funerals & Burials
- Understanding Jewish Funeral & Burial Traditions (Sympathy Brands)
Memorial Day Service Resources
- Memorial Day Program Sample (Cypress Lawn)
- Memorial Day Agenda Sample (Cypress Lawn)
Selected Member Zoom Meeting on Remembrance Service
- Remembrance Service Discussion Notes
- Sample newsletter "Tomorrow" (Proko-Wall Funeral Home & Crematory)
- Remembrance Services eBook (Funeral Innovations)
Pet Cremation Memorial Card Sample (interior & exterior) (Best Friends Pet Cremations Services)
Time to Grieve or Time to Celebrate: What Should Funerals Be? (Bill Hoy, Michael Schoedinger)
Cultural Perspectives — A blog from SevenPonds.com offering unique articles about death traditions from other cultures
Aftercare Resources
- Post-death Checklist (O'Connor Mortuary)
- Post-death Checklist (Lowe Funeral Home)
- Post-death Checklist Langeland-Sterenberg Funeral Homes)
- Shutting Down Social Media Accounts Guide (Mollie Lacher/Sunny Care Services)
Resources for Childhood Grief
- The National Alliance for Grieving Children
- When Someone Dies: A Child-Caregiver Activity Book
- Tu Nidito Organization
- Talking to Children About Death
- Water Bugs and Dragonflies
- Parenting While Grieving
Louis Charbonnet
Doug Gober
Dr. Bill Hoy“It’s All About the Experience!”
Dr. Bill Hoy outlines the great value funeral service has followed by Doug Gober and Louis Charbonnet facilitating a Jazz funeral experience.
