How To Organise A Celebration of Life Ceremony

A Celebration of Life is a gathering that is held to honour and commemorate the life of a loved one who has died. Unlike a traditional funeral service, a Celebration of Life is often more upbeat and focuses on celebrating the person's life and accomplishments, rather than mourning their death (although saying goodbye is also an important part of the ceremony).

Celebrations of Life are all very different - just as we are all different. It should reflect the way the person lived and certainly not feel like a conveyor belt approach to death which can often happen at the crematorium.

The ceremony can take place with the coffin present or after the cremation or burial has taken place (often after a direct cremation or an unattended burial ie without family and friends in attendance).
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A Celebration of Life  is a much more modern approach to funerals and can be visual, happy, loud and even instagrammable if that is what they would have liked;  it can be elegant, luxurious and beautifully orchestrated or alternatively it can be back to nature in a woodland or garden with nothing but the backdrop of birdsong, vegetation and the smell of summer flowers.​

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