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Funerals are a chance for people to remember your life and say goodbye. If you have wishes for your funeral, make sure those around you know. Our funeral planner form can help you record what you’d like to happen, so you can easily share this with friends and family.
My mother doesn’t want her coffin in the church. She wants a service but she doesn’t want the coffin in church. Thank goodness she has written it down because she would have been there; I wouldn’t have given it a thought.
I remember something that didn’t work and as we were coming out of the funeral I said to my kids, I do not want a eulogy. I hate eulogies. I don’t want one. And my son, who has always been very funny, he said, 'Mum you will be dead – you won’t know anything about it.' Which is true.