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The 5 Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance
Grief is something that everyone, at some point in their lives, must experience. Everyone's personal grief may manifest itself in different ways. However, researchers have come up with the 5 stage of grief, which are [...]
The Benefits of Grief Counseling
Grief is the emotional experience that occurs after a loss, usually in the form of the death of a loved one or loved ones. Although grieving is a universal experience, every individual experiences grief in [...]
Helping a Family Select a Casket – Part 2
Guiding a family to select the right casket is both a science and an art. Psychological factors that the grieving family brings into the picture along with your responsibilities as a business owner definitely create [...]
Helping a Family Select a Casket – Part 1
The selection of the casket is one of the first things grieving families think about when they are considering burial. Somehow this takes precedence because it is how most people believe they can preserve the [...]
Handling Emotional Outbursts
The intense emotions expressed at funerals can range from stoicism to uncontrollable sobbing and loud wailing. How do you handle the overt emotions of total strangers who have gathered in your funeral home to pay [...]
Casket or Cremation? Guiding the Choice
How you help your grieving families choose between having a burial or cremating their loved one’s remains is a critical step. When the deceased has already made his or her wishes known, it is just [...]
Make it a Team Effort
Although a sense of loneliness is a natural product of the loss of a loved one, everyone assumes that a funeral director must also by default have a lonely job. Those funeral directors who try [...]
Who Is In Charge?
In the process of trying to be sensitive to your grieving family, it is possible to be overrun by them. This is not something they do intentionally. Their world has been turned upside down, so [...]
Helping your Clients Choose Between Flowers and Donations
For most people, this seems like a quick and easy decision. That is because most people are not going through the loss of someone close to them. When someone suffers a traumatic loss, the smallest [...]
Providing Needed Resources on your Website
Your website should be a "One-Stop Shop” for your grieving families. Here they should find a wealth of resources to help them cope with all the added responsibilities that a death in the family loads [...]
