Are you wondering what Living Legacies can do for you?
Here are a few things....
"May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,
Leading to the most amazing view...
Where something strange, more beautiful and more full of wonder
Than your deepest dreams awaits you"
Edward Abbey
"If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
Kahlil Gibran
- Help you plan your own or your loved one's funeral at any time.
- Help you make the difficult decisions like burial/cremation, where, how, etc
- Support during the days either side of death
- Provide information on the practical details of funerals and dying
- Someone to talk to about your feelings about death
- Support for family members
- Help you create a photographic or video legacy
- Guidance about children's involvement in the process
- Supply biodegradable and sustainably-produced coffins
- Provide information about regulations etc
- Counselling for grief or other issues
- Help you write an Ethical Will
- Lobby for changes in out-dated laws
- Provide books and other resources to facilitate your grieving
- Workshops and education programmes about death, dying and funerals
- Encourage autonomy and individuality in the process of dying
- Accept and work within your spiritual belief system
- Provide information, and links to organisations, resources and information on global warming, climate change, forests, conservation, and what else you can do to help our planet
- Help establish support groups if required
- Promote the concept of free and informed choice
- Encourage a consultative, inclusive and community-centred focus
- Act with respect and sensitivity to people's lives, needs and feelings
- Celebrate life!
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