A Celebration of Life Through Words; How to Write an Obituary.
An obituary is more than just an announcement in the newspaper. It’s the story and celebration of a person’s life, it’s a record of...
Someone Else Gets It.
It is important to understand that everyone's grief journey is their own, unique experience. A group of people may be grieving the loss...
The Grave Cost of Funerals.
The majority of the population has never considered the potential cost of a funeral or memorial service. Talking about death makes many...
Love is in the details.
Love is in the details. When someone special dies, the overwhelming amount of details to deal with are, well, overwhelming. Even when...
More transparency needed in funeral industry; new legislation needs to go further to protect consum
With the funeral industry’s growing focus on upselling bereaved families, we are happy to see the Province of Manitoba expects to...
Planning the Occasion Your Loved One Would Want.
There are a lot of big decisions to be made in a very short period of time when planning an occasion to honour the life of your loved...
A soccer ball is a cremation urn.
A lot of the time when you walk into a funeral home the first items you may be asked about are type of urn or casket, concrete burial...
Top Six Things You Should Know About Planning a Cremation or Funeral.
1) You don’t need to purchase an urn or casket from the funeral home. Funeral homes will often have the best of the best when it comes to...
Why I became a funeral director and why I left the business 23 years later.
It’s called the death care industry. “Care” being a word that means something to me. I got into death care because I wanted to help...
What is a Death Care Consultant?
We can feel so lost when a loved one dies, especially if the death happens unexpectedly. There’s a panic and sadness that takes over and...
