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How Celebrants Can Help With Funerals

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Funerals are often regarded as "Celebrations of Life." Sometimes families want someone to speak for the deceased at funeral services, but they may not have anyone readily available. This is sometimes the case when individuals are not involved with any religious organizations during their life. It can also occur when individuals estrange themselves from their families or spend much of their life away from others due to being institutionalized. However, sometimes it is a matter of a death being devastating and leaving everyone close to the deceased including clergy members unable to take an active role in the services. Celebrants can fill the need for families under these circumstances. The following will help you to better understand how they might be able to assist you. 

Who chooses a celebrant?

Families can choose to have a celebrant present at their loved ones' services. However, if you are pre-planning your funeral and do not want a clergy member to perform the service, you can choose a celebrant as part of your funeral planning. Some funeral homes have staff members who are celebrants. 

What can a celebrant do to make a funeral go smoothly?

Celebrants usually speak at funerals. Their speeches often detail the life of the deceased. Many of them write their own speeches based on information gathered about the deceased individuals. They can also locate music, poems, and other readings that fit the occasion. Celebrants can lower the stress that many families feel when death occurs. Celebrants do not merely show up and make random speeches. They take the time to get to know families and the deceased. This is how they are able to speak personally about deceased individuals even if they did not actually know them while they were living.

What types of service accommodations do celebrants require? 

These professionals can help families regardless of whether the services are graveside or in a building or church. Some people seek celebrants for post-funeral events such as tributes, anniversaries, bench dedications, or tree plantings. 

A funeral home is a good resource to use to understand more ways a celebrant could be beneficial for your own funeral or a loved one's. They may also be able to help you locate local celebrants if their funeral home does not have one employed there. You can work with the funeral home you intend to use, like Foran Funeral Home, and a celebrant for your own funeral pre-planning, which can relieve your family in the future.


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