Planning a funeral: 10-point checklist
- Choose a funeral director.
- Inform the deceased's solicitor.
- Establish whether the body is to be buried or cremated.
- Inform friends and relatives.
- Register the death with a Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
- Put an announcement in a paper (and decide whether funeral tributes should be in the form of flowers or donations to charity).
- Make appropriate arrangements for the funeral service (who will officiate, choice of music and hymns, flowers, readings, address/eulogy).
- Decide on what kind of reception you want after the funeral; organise the catering.
- Inform authorities and key financial institutions of the death.
- Organise transport for the funeral.
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