We want to share or knowledge and expertise with you. So, here are some of the partners that we work with, useful links and reading suggestions...

 

   
The Deceased Preference Service (DPS)

The purpose of the service is to help you stop unwelcome post addressed to your deceased loved one, and to assist companies in combating criminal fraud which may be committed in the name of the deceased.
   

Phoenix Diamonds

Phoenix Diamonds manufacture high quality diamonds in a laboratory from 'Cremains', (funeral ashes) or hair. Beautiful canary yellow and blue diamonds to treasure and hand down through the generations provide an everlasting memorial of your loved one.

   
Motorcycle Funerals Limited

Britain's first and only motorcycle sidecar hearses.
Unique waterproof Motorbike combinations  for all motorcyclists.
   

Muchloved.com

Creating a Memorial Website as an alternative means of Commemoration. On a Memorial Website you can express your feelings about your loved one not just in words but in pictures, music and even video. You can also use your site to enable family and friends, however far away they live, to send their thoughts and to contribute as well, maybe by adding a lovely picture you've never seen or a special story you've never heard.

   

Reiki

Most of the time we think about healing to save lives or to assist people in living longer. However, Reiki is about making people heal and feel better on all levels (physical, emotional & spiritual). This can assist with wellbeing during the dying process.

   
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

This simple and gentle acupuncture like procedure uses your fingertips instead of needles, to balance the meridians of the body’s subtle energy system… Without interfering with any medical procedures.

   

Catalyst Counselling Service  

Providing caring and confidential support through the sometimes frightening, overpowering and unpredictable impact that bereavement can have. It offers time to talk with a counsellor who is not involved in the bereavement; has no expectation that ‘you should be over it by now’ and has an insight into what is ‘normal’ and ‘common’ to experience during grief.

   
 

Suggested Reading

Click book images for further details, and to order online via Amazon.co.uk:

   
 
 
What can I do to help?
75 Practical Ideas for Family and Friends from Cancer's Frontline

by Deborah Hutton
ISBN 1904977391
Published by Short Books
Get Dead (You’ve got to laugh)

by Jamie Oliver
ISBN 1905548265
Published by Friday Books
   
 
How to have a good death

by Jane Feinmann
ISBN 1405316292
Published by Dorling Kindersley Limited

On Death and Dying

by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
ISBN 0684839385
Published by Scribner
   
 
The Oxford Book of Death
(Oxford Books of Prose)

by D.J. Enright
ISBN 0192803808
Published by Oxford University Press
The Complete Book of Funeral Planning,
Readings and Music


by R Johnstone-Burt
ISBN 0572030584
Published by Foulsham
   
 
Cemetery Stories
Creepy Graveyards, Embalming Secrets and the Life of a Corpse After Death

by Katherine Ramsland ISBN 1904132022
Published by Fusion Press
The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion
ISBN 0007216858
Published by Harper Collins
   
 
Poems and Readings for Funerals

Edited by Julia Watson
ISBN 0141014962
Published by The Penguin Group

Death, Dying and Bereavement

by Donna Dickenson
ISBN 0761968571
Published by SAGE Publications Ltd
       
And In The End

by Keith R Lindsay
ISBN 1905745001
Published by Fusion Press
The Motorcycle Hearse and Other Undertakings:
Stories from the Life and Work of a Hospital Chaplain

by Ian Morris
ISBN 095538110X
Published by Crossover Communications Ltd
       
The Bereaved Parent

by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff
ISBN 978-0-285-64891-3
Published by Souvenir Press Ltd

The Death of a Child

by Elaine E. Stillwell
ISBN 0-87946-260-4
Published by ACTA Publications
       
As Big as it Gets

By
Julie A. Stokes, Diana Crossley, and Di Stubbs        
ISBN 978-0-9539123-9-1
Published by Winston's Wish
The Art of Dying

by Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick
ISBN 978-08264-9923-3
Published by Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
   
 
The Welcome Visitor

by John Humphrys                  ISBN 978 0340 923771
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
   
       
   
 


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