Photo of 2 children holding hands in a cemetery "Should I bring my children to the funeral?" is a question that I get asked a lot when I meet with people to plan funerals. As a funeral celebrant I spend a lot of time talking about death and dying. But I am well aware that in our modern secular British culture many people have become very disconnected from death. Over the last century, we have ‘outsourced’ most aspects of death, dying and care of the dead to industry professionals. As adults...

‘Döstädning’ is the Swedish art of ‘Death Cleaning’….. And it’s not as morbid as it sounds, according to the author Margareta Magnusson...

Often after a cremation, people aren’t quite sure what to ‘do’ with the ashes.