Information and support if you are dealing with a loved one passing.
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Funeral in a time of pandemic. A toolkit for families and children
🔗https://good-grief.org/wp-content/themes/x-child/pdf/Children-Funerals-and-a-Pandemic.pdf
Tips for dealing with funerals when it's not possible to mourn together in person
🇺🇸🔗https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51935266
News article - US funerals move to live-streaming
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52142660
How to grieve a loved one when you can't say goodbye
🇬🇧🔗https://www.cruse.org.uk/coronavirus/funerals
Coronavirus: funerals and memorials
🇬🇧🔗https://nafd.org.uk/funeral-advice/
Questions about funerals during COVID-19
Coronavirus information regarding funerals
🇬🇧🔗http://www.nelsonsjourney.org.uk/covid-19-funeralguidance/
Coronavirus: Guidance for Families around Funerals
🔗https://www.cpr.org/2020/04/01/denver-coronavirus-death-family-mike-farley-maybe-to-goodbye/
How A Denver Family Found Itself Saying Goodbye To COVID-19-Infected Father Over Video Chat
MyWIshes
🇬🇧🔗https://www.mywishes.co.uk/how-it-works
Free end of life planning software that provides advance care planning (advance directives / anticipatory care planning), funeral planning, digital legacy and assets planning
Beyond
Arrange a funeral
Vivo Recuerdo
"Vivo Recuerdo®, permite que, familiares y amigos que se encuentran lejos, estén presentes y a tiempo real desde cualquier punto del mundo"
Bios Urn
Company offering biodegradable burial urns for burial
and emotions bereaved people may have to deal with
Good Grief
🇺🇸🌍🔗https://good-grief.org/covid-19/
New Jersey focussed organisation, providing unlimited and free support to children, teens, young adults, and families after the death of a family member. Additinally, provides useful resources for a global audience
Untangle
🇬🇧🌍🔗https://www.untangle.life/
Support system which helps by bringing communities and experts such as solicitors, life coaches, and financal advisors together, and provides advice on how to handle the first few days, weeks, and months after a loss
Cruse Bereavement Centre
🇬🇧🔗https://www.cruse.org.uk/get-help/coronavirus-dealing-bereavement-and-grief
📞0808 808 1677
The leading national charity for bereaved people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, is providing COVID-19 specific resources and helpline
The Loss Foundation
Free bereavement support for loss due to Cancer or COVID-19
The Grief Recovery Method
🇬🇧🔗https://www.griefrecoverymethod.co.uk/blog
A Grief Support Plan helping people to move beyond death, divorce and other losses.
London Assembly - Guide on how cope with bereavement and grief during the Coronavirus outbreak
🇬🇧🔗https://www.london.gov.uk/coronavirus/how-cope-bereavement-and-grief-during-coronavirus-outbreak
Resources about how to register deaths, the impact of COVID-19 on funerals, and find bereavement services
Funerals & Memorials
'Why should you cry?' Ghana's dancing pallbearers find new fame during COVID-19
Article talking about joyful funerals, celebrating those we have lost
'My rabbi's tools now include a phone': UK Jewish burials changed by COVID-19
Article exploring how funerals are changing in a time of pandemics, to allow people to 'attend' remotely
Death in a time of Coronavirus
🌍🔗 https://padlet.com/hannahgould/deathduringcorona
How can we mark the passing of people at a time like this? A collaborative account of how others are celebrating the lives of those who have passed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which can help provide ideas at a difficult time
COVID-19 Bereavement: Memorialising
🌍🔗https://www.suddendeath.org/covid-19-bereavement/covid-19-advice-on-memorialising
Suggestions on how you may memoralise those who have passed when restrictions on gathering means we have to honour those who have passed in ways different to normal
Virtual Memorial Guide
🌍🔗https://www.virtualmemorialguide.org/
Social distancing is making it hard to honor the lives of loved ones who have passed. Virtual Memorial Guide is a resource hoping to help anyone confidently plan a unique virtual memorial
Financial Support for Funerals
Down to Earth
🇬🇧🔗www.downtoearthsupport.org.uk
Funeral costs helpline run by Quaker Social Action. Includes practical guidance on arranging and meaningful funeral during the pandemic
Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment)
🇬🇧🔗https://www.gov.uk/funeral-payments?step-by-step-nav=4f1fe77d-f43b-4581-baf9-e2600e2a2b7a
UK Government advice on who may be able to claim financial support for funeral costs, and how to do this
Self Care & Philosophy
Finding Solace in Meditation
🌍🔗https://www.headspace.com/blog/2018/03/14/grief-and-meditation/
An essay on the experiences of sitting with grief
The School of Life - When someone we love dies
🌍🔗📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgEZYKKZqRA
A set of the School of Life's darkest but most consoling thoughts on death
The RSA - Brené Brown on Empathy
🌍🔗📺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
Talking to people following a loss - the difference between empathy and sympathy
Meet-ups
Bereaved Meetup
🌍🔗https://www.meetup.com/bereavement-support-group/
Virtual bereavement meetups
Widows and Widowers Group
🇬🇧🔗https://www.meetup.com/Widows-and-Widowers-Group/
UK focussed virtual bereavement meetups
Religious Considerations
Christianity
The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick
A video for Catholics reminding you how the Church can help in times of sickness and death
Islam
The Culture Connection: Muslim End-of-Life Practices
End of life practices for Muslims
🔗http://hospicefoundation.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Caring-for-A-Muslim-Patient.pdf
Caring for a muslim patient
Judaism
🔗https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/end-of-life-issues-a-jewish-perspective/
End of life perspective: a Jewish view
End of life practices for a Jewish person
Atheism
Facing Death without Religion
🔗https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/facing-death-without-religion/
Secular sources like science work well for meaning making
