A Farewell at Home – Gillian’s Story
A Farewell at Home – Gillian’s Story As we move into the summer, we’d like to bring your attention to home funerals. This is where a funeral takes place in the home or garden of the person who has died, or that of a family member or friend able to host the ceremony....
Guest blog – ‘Leap into Death’
December 2024's ‘guest blog’ written by David Lambert - a Stroud resident, former Extinction Rebel, and part-time assistant here at Family Tree Funeral Company. I recently read a flyer from Pure Cremation,™ the UK’s leading provider of ‘direct cremation’, that is,...
Guest blog – Reflections on a not-so-direct direct cremation
Introducing our first ‘guest blog’, this piece has been written by Roger Vincent-Silk whose wife Barbara died almost a year ago in February 2021. Barbara’s funeral was not conventional in that Roger opted for an ‘attended direct cremation’ and a shroud, not a coffin....
A young daughter’s tribute
Bicycles, sushi, sweets, pizza, nature, stars, mountains and the ‘King of the Mountains’ jersey– the story of a young father’s life as seen and painted by his very talented six-year-old daughter in the kitchen in their house on the Bath Rd, Stroud. A very simple...
Life in the grave
Before a burial takes place, we always check the grave which includes lining it with hay to soften the austere-looking clay or shale floor. Checking the grave at Gloucester Cemetery just before a burial, we noticed movement in the grave bottom – and saw a bright green...
The source of the ‘death taboo’
How did Britain change so drastically from a nation obsessed with death and funeral etiquette to one – until recently - so averse to any mention of the topic? Firstly, Queen Victoria died, in 1901. Then came the War; thousands of young men swept in great waves...