Grief Support

When you lose someone, your world can fall apart. Knowing how to deal with loss and grief can be almost as hard as the grief itself, but it doesn’t have to be. Funeral homes in Garyville, LA and beyond offer resources and grief support to help you through your time of loss.

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Just because everyone will experience grief and one point, or another doesn’t make it any easier. The following is a list of online resources for coping with bereavement and grief to give you additional support if you need it. This list includes convenient online support like professional counselors, community sites, and bloggers.

    • Association of Death Education and Counseling: ADEC has over 2,000 members, including physical and mental health professionals, educators, funeral directors, and clergymen. They host grief conferences, workshop and seminars frequently.
      Light A Candle: This website has a page where people can “light” a digital candle in honor of their lost loved one. You can attach a name, date or photo to the candle, too.
    • National Child Traumatic Stress Network: The NCTSN helps support kids who have gone through trauma from death of a loved one to injuries. They strive to reinforce stability and healing.
    • The Grief Recovery Method: The Grief Recovery Method is a website developed by the Grief Recovery Institute. It has lots of valuable grief information and been a leading resource for 30 years.
    • Resources for Survivors of Suicide: This group emphasizes that you are not alone when you lose a loved one through suicide. They offer different tools, interactive online supports and more.
    • National Center for Victims of Crime: This organization voices and supports abuse and crime survivors. They have a broad focus but offer help to a wide variety of victims and surviving family.
    • Open to Hope: Open to Hope is a non-profit that helps people find hope again after a loss. They offer community support, articles, books, and more to help people work through their loss and start to love meaningful and happy lives while working through their grief.
    • Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc: TAPS specifically serve families who’ve lost a member of the military through peer-based support.
    • The Sweeney Alliance: Founded by Peggy Sweeney, this non-profit offers a range of programs for adults and children who’ve suffered a loss. Check out their regular newsletters and online resources.
    • Use any of the above resources to help you through your loss. It’s important to remember that getting extra help and support for grief is not shameful. In fact, seeking the help you need makes you brave and strong. There is strength is community and support.

If you want more information on grief support, or would like to learn more about Fruit Cove, FL funeral homes, just reach out to Millet Guidry Funeral Home. We offer a range of funeral and cremation services and would be happy to assist you in any way we can. Please give us a call today for more information about how we can help in your time of loss.

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Writing An Obituary Around Funeral Home Cremations

When you have a loved one pass away, it’s important to honor them through a cremation service at the funeral home. You will also want to write an obituary to announce their death.

 

When a loved one passes away, there are a lot of things you are going to need to take care of. Luckily, the funeral home and cremation provider you have chosen will help you with all of the details. One thing you will want to do is honor your loved one through an announcement of their death, otherwise known as an obituary. Writing an obituary can be very difficult. After all, how can you summarize someone’s life in a few short paragraphs? Don’t think of it as a life recap, but rather an announcement. You want the friends you weren’t able to reach out to, or perhaps don’t even know about, to be notified of your loved one’s death. Here are a few details that can help you get things just right.

Announce The Death

While you want your loved one’s eulogy to be personal, the main purpose is to announce their death, so most people do that part first. You want the community to understand that your loved one has passed on. There are a number of ways to state that fact. Most people don’t say ‘died’ as they feel it is too blunt. Some will say passed on and others will say the person has left us. If they had an illness, you can say they ended a long battle with cancer or whatever plagued them. Don’t be vague because you want everyone to know they have passed away. The funeral home and cremation provider can read through what you write and make sure it’s clear.

Include A Biography

This is usually the hardest part of the obituary to write. You want those who read the announcement to learn a little bit about your oved one including highlights of their meaningful life, ways they contributed to society, and other such qualities. Don’t worry about listing everything they did and everything they were to the people in their life. You won’t’ have room. Just hit a few highlights you think they would appreciate.

Survivor List

Most obituaries also talk about close relatives that are still around in case someone knows they and will then recognize it was their loved one who passed on. You can also list people who have preceded them in death. Make sure you run these lists by family members to make sure you haven’t’ left anyone important out.

Service Details

People often add important service information at the end of the obituary. If the services are open to the public, state the time, place and other details people need to know. IF they are just for family and friends, you can state that, but still include the location so people can send cards and flowers.

There are other details that go into writing an obituary, but when you have a cremation service with a funeral home planned with Millet Guidry Funeral Home, we can help you with those details. We’ll show you examples and help you get things just right to honor your loved one in this way.