Guide to Funerals - Funeral for a Friend: Poet

Funeral for a Friend: Poet

Arrange for a poetry reading of your friend’s poetry every night before your friend’s funeral.
Arrange for your friend’s poem to be read in the funeral rites.
Make a banner of your friend’s favorite line in his/her own poem and hang it over his/her coffin in the funeral home’s viewing room.
Make pamphlets of your friend’s poetry and distribute it to friends and family after the funeral. This is one way of immortalizing your friend and his/her memory in the hearts of those who love him/her, through his/her poems.

Suggested Music for Funerals

Suggested Books on Death and Dying

Home First Things First Choosing a Funeral Home Funeral Flower Arrangements Funeral for a Friend Funeral Poems Eulogy How to Write a Eulogy Articles Privacy Statement Links

Home

What To Do

First Things First

Choosing a Funeral Home

Funeral Flower Arrangements
◦ Funeral Flowers
◦ Sympathy Flowers

Resources

Funeral for a Friend
◦ Funeral for a Grandparent
◦ Funeral for a Friend: Teacher
◦ Funeral for a Friend: Cheerleader
◦ Funeral for a Friend: Athlete
◦ Funeral for a Friend: Musician
◦ Funeral for a Friend: Painter
◦ Funeral for a Friend: Photographer
◦ Funeral for a Friend: Poet

Funeral Poems
◦ Silence
◦ Mere Reflection
◦ My Lady of Surpassing Beauty
◦ Memorial For A Friend
◦ 1899 & 2004 (A Song to Two Unsung Heroes)
◦ Of Love and Music (A Eulogy)
◦ To Grandfather: In Memory of a Kitemaker
◦ Ghosts

Eulogy
◦ How to Write a Eulogy
◦ Sample Eulogy

Articles
◦ Dealing with Loss of a Pet
◦ Humanistic Approach to Dealing with Death
◦ Ancient Fear of Death in Funeral Customs and Traditions
◦ The Evolution of Funeral Customs and Traditions

On Death and Dying
◦ THOMAS GRAY: Elegy Written On A Country Churchyard
◦ EDGAR ALLAN POE: Selected Short Stories and Poems on Death and Dying
◦ CHARLES and MARY LAMB: selected poems on children's death and dying
◦ EMILY DICKINSON: selected poems on Death and Dying
◦ GEORGE ANDREW REISNER: Egyptian Conception of Immortality
◦ E.A. WALLIS BUDGE: The Book Of The Dead
◦ ALEXANDER SMITH: Of Death And The Fear Of Dying
◦ WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY: The Second Funeral Of Napoleon

Sympathies and Condolences

Site Map

BLOG