The minister met with the family to help plan the ceremony, and conducted the funeral service and a graveside service.
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Most ministers will just ask for a simple donation to the church. Us ministers should never seek personal payment for such a job!
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A couple of years ago I had to make my funeral arrangements. I know definitely what I want.  It fact, my husband is legally bound to do it.  It is all signed sealed and delivered.\n\nI want my intrep group to perform three songs:\nLord, You're Holy (Youthquake Choir)\nI Can Only Imagine (Mercy Me)\nMy Redeemer (Nicole C. Mullins)\n\nMy pastor will give a short sermon with the message of salvation presented plainly.  There will also be an alter call.  I cannot let pass the chance to have someone find salvation. My life has been in His service and this is His commandment to me.  I want this sermon to be my last earthly act of obedience to Him.\n\nNo Eulogies.\n\nAfter the graveyard, I want all my family and friends to get together for a pot luck dinner with good music, lots of conversation, and laughter.  If those in attendance want to say things about me then, cool.  Good memeories and good times, all in His service.
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Several places to contact.  The funeral home may have a suggestion.\n\nI know of several churches that have had grave sites left to them going unused.\n\nCremation is much cheaper.  It doesn't require an expensive casket, and brings an equality to funerals that is not matched by burials.
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Funeral Chapel Services Include:\nFlorals • Memorials at Funeral Chapel or Home • Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicles\nMilitary Services • Grief Counseling • Budgeted Funeral Packages • Motor Escorts • Urns\nInsurance Accepted • Burial Insurance • State-Regulated, Prepaid Packages • Caskets\nLicensed Hairstylist and Makeup Artist on staff
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I was preparing sermon.
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If the Church won't go to minister, bring the ministry to the Church.  Your example to them just might provoke them to good works.\n\nDo something fun.  Maybe invite a born-again motorcycle club to bring coffee and donuts and minister to the congregation after service.
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A funeral home is enough.  I suppose it's mostly up to the surviving members of the family though.  If someone wanted a prayer, it would also be more for the mourners.  The atheist would most likely need to leave specific instructions if they didn't want anything religious involved.  If the atheist was baptized early in life the family might drag a church into it if they really wanted.  I've had non-religious friends who have died but their family had Mass of Christian Burial for them since they were originally Catholic.  I know a lot of people who have it at a funeral home anyway even if they are religious.  My grandfather was Catholic so we had a priest come to the funeral home.  An atheist could just have family members or friends speak instead.
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In other words the service "is geared towards" the needs of......
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I did a beautiful funeral/memorial service for a woman I did not know...she did not have a Priest of her own....only three people showed up, but I did my very best...\n\nI did my wife's dirty laundry after she was at a horse-show for a solid week in Las Vegas!!  :-)   Phheeewww!
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She wanted to see the gorgeous guy again.  She figured that if he was at one family funeral, he would be at the next one.
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Most churchs offer this service.
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Go to your local church. The pastor or priest is trained to help with grief. Sorry for your loss. We'll be praying for you and your family.
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most funeral homes understand that people sometimes need help with final expenses.  don't wait till the bill is due, go talk to them and explain the situation.  i'm betting they will come up with a payment program that works for you.  sorry for your loss.
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I would attend the funeral and support your mum through it. You should also speak to your Grandad who I am sure misses her terribly. Sympathy cars are for friends and acquaintances who lose a loved one.\n\nCondolences on your family's loss.
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The priests duty was to care for the gods and attend to their needs. The priests had many duties such as funeral rites, teaching school, supervising the artists and works, and advising people on problems. \nDeath and Funerals \n\nThe Egyptians saw death as a transitional stage in the progress to a better life in the next world. They believed they could only reach their full potential after death. Each person was thought to have three souls, the "ka," the "ba," and the "akh." For these to function properly, it was considered essential for the body to survive intact. The entire civilization of Ancient Egypt was based on religion, and their beliefs were important to them. Their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices. \nEmbalming \n\nWhen a person died, the priests recited prayers and a final attempt was made to revive the deceased. The body was then washed and purified in a special shelter called an ibu. The body was then taken the wabet, which was the embalmer's workshop. A cut was made in the left side, and all the organs were removed and stored in containers known as canopic jars. The body was then packed with a salt called natron for a period of forty days. After the forty days had passed, the insides were filled with linen or sawdust, resin and natron. The body was wrapped in bandages with jewelry and amulets between the layers. A portrait mask was placed over the head of the deceased by the Chief Embalmer, who wore a jackal mask to represent Anubis. The wrapped body, or mummy, was put into a coffin. \nBurial Tombs \n\nAfter a period of about 70 days, in which the mummification process took place, the mummy was placed in a decorated coffin. Furniture, carved statues, games, food, and other items useful to the next life were prepared to be buried with the mummy. The last ritual performed by the priest on the mummy was called the "Opening of the Mouth." This ceremony was to magically give the deceased the ability to speak and eat again, and to have full use of his body. After placing the mummy in the sarcophagus, the tomb was sealed.
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It will take it happening to a family in ploitics.
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I'ed first make sure an organ donation was set up and would be taken care of. Then I'ed make sure my brother would get all my money and stuff and would be taken care of. My funeral would be a party, I would write out little requests of things I didn't have time to do, everything from sky diving to adopting a child, I would ask the people that loved me to pick one and do it, along with something they always wanted to do, then get together a year after I died and share with each other what they did and how it changed them. You're right if we live like we were dying and we take care of the things and people in our life today, not only can we make our life worth living, but our loved ones can help us live on, not only in their memories, but their actions.