ANDRIA ANDERSON·May 13Member-onlyRemembering Tooth #5And all those others taken for granted Once upon a time, not all that long ago, tiny tooth buds nestled in a minute peanut shape. Month by month, protection grew around them. Two rows of buds, deep and deeper, they nestled safely. When…Memorial Service4 min readMemorial Service4 min read
Nitin Chaudhary·Mar 25Poems For Mother Passing AwayTo honor your loved one, many people choose to read a poem aloud during the services, especially when they have their own mother’s funeral service. I myself choose to write a poem for my late mother’s funeral service and it was a moment that will stay with me forever. For…Memorial Service2 min readMemorial Service2 min read
Nitin Chaudhary·Mar 24MOM PASSED AWAY POEMMom Passed Away is a perfect funeral poem that captures the essence of a mother’s love and is the perfect tribute to her memory. It is an emotional and heartfelt funeral song that will touch everyone attending the memorial service. The poem describes how lucky we are to have had…Memorial Services2 min readMemorial Services2 min read
Aspen Roots Care and Counseling, LLC·Jan 2Funerals: Why Bother?At best, a funeral feels like a sad and inconvenient family reunion. We put on our darkest Sunday best, try to keep the children quiet and subdued, and go to a church to listen to songs and memories. Then we offer our helpless condolences to people in tears. It’s a…Memorial Service4 min readMemorial Service4 min read
Heather Woods·Dec 12, 2022Member-onlyHere is Why I Chose a Celebration of Life Service for My Mom’s PassingBucking tradition to make way for new ways of grieving. Prior to my mom’s passing in October of 2021, my mom and I didn’t discuss how she wanted her death to be memorialized, and it was never put in her will. I knew that I would have to figure it…Memorial Service6 min readMemorial Service6 min read
Roseann Galvan - LOVE a follow need 93 more to 100·Nov 9, 2022Adding Fun to FUNeralsPerson 1: What are you doing this weekend? Person 2: Going to a funeral. Person 1: Oh, how fun! The above conversation never took place. Ever. Anywhere. Everyone loves going to christenings, bar mitzvahs, and weddings, but the one life event that every faith and cultural tradition shares is pretty much universally dreaded. No one enjoys going to…Memorial Service7 min readMemorial Service7 min read
Brien Lee·Aug 31, 2022Member-onlyFuneral Songs and Music — Make Tribute VideosWhat’s appropriate as a funeral song? This is a tricky question. If you’ve created a tribute video for the deceased in the past, you might be apt to use that video as is, but sections of it may be too raucous for the settings. Since many tribute videos are music…Memorial Service2 min readMemorial Service2 min read
Joe Váradi·Jul 23, 2022My Remarks at the Memorial Service Held for My FatherBudapest, July 16, 2022 — I made these remarks on the evening of Saturday, July 16, in Hungarian to relatives and close family friends in attendance. Below is the English translation. I’d like to welcome all of you. …Memorial Service8 min readMemorial Service8 min read
Thomas Eldon Anderson·Jul 23, 2022Scattered Part 1: Olympic National Park, WashingtonLake Quinault — (En)chanted Drumming Before our parents died they asked us that when the time came, that we mix their ashes together and scatter them in two places: Lake Quinault in the Olympic National Park in Washington State, and the Atlantic Ocean at Bethany Beach in Delaware. This past week, three years later due…Memorial Service11 min readMemorial Service11 min read
Lisa Chan·Jun 18, 2022Remembering the Recipe on Father’s Day: Taking the Time to Create Your Happy Life(My June 29, 2019 Speech for My Father’s Memorial Service) My father turned 83 less than a month before he passed away, but for me and my family, we had already been mourning the loss of who he was, the person he had been, for a long time. …Memorial Service5 min readMemorial Service5 min read
