Re: Re: A childs funeral?

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In a message dated 6/10/2004 2:51:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,

gsdmomma@... writes:

I wouldn't wear black myself as I feel that funerals

are or in my opinion should be a celebration of life.

Colleen, close friends of ours run a huge congomerate of funeral homes in the

Philly area. They call their services a *Life Celebration* service. When

you go, they have booklets made up of the photos of the deceased enjoying life

with family. They started doing this the year after my mom died....;-(

BUT, since they are close to us, they gave both my parents a GRAND send off.

Donna

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This is all so sad. :-( I can't even imagine how hard it is. I still want

to call my Mom, and she's been gone over a year. Many, many prayers for the

family and friends.

Gail :-)

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Hi Laurie,

Hugs to you and your friend whom lost their dear child. This is not easy topic

for me to write but the beautiful memory I have when one of my 10 year old dear

nephew whom I still miss dearly, was the thought of 2 weeks after his funeral,

was the planting of a tree at the school he attended with all the students whom

adored him sang a beautiful song (something " Like you are not alone " by

) but coming from the kids voice made it special and released balloons of

their school colors (which must be caution due to some cities not allowing it

due to the environment and birds) and a memorial bench by the tree in memory of

my nephew. This was a beautiful thought and especially for the students to help

them grieve in their own way by participating. During that time they all took

turns making sure that the tree is well taken care of. His parents when near the

area are able to go when school is out and sit for awhile at the bench and watch

how well its been taken care of and this comforts them as they know their son is

still remembered.

His parents were also given a frame of one of his Art pictures which he had

drawn one week before he was killed in an auto accident during the planting of

the tree ceremony. Another item given to my brother-in-law and his wife was a

nice cute wreath from his Basketball team which was given at the funeral. To

this day this wreath is placed only on his death anniversary or Christmas.

Everyone's reply in regards to this issue was just nice and comforting to read.

I know its something that none of us would like to attend but just the care of

everyone coming together was a memorable one in honor of my nephew. My nephew

had a beautiful and memorable funeral which was nice during the worst moments,

its the after that is hard to deal with and so true to the responses on this

that everyone has written.

You are a very special friend to them during these moments. Lots of hugs.

Irma,15,DS/ASD