This book provides resource for those taking funeral or memorial services and offer pastoral care to the bereaved.

A wide-ranging collection of prayers, readings and liturgies provides a complete pastoral resource for a time when intensive support is needed.

Here are forms of words for every stage in the process, from the time of death to conducting a memorial service. Simple, elegant prayers and an imaginative choice of readings from scripture, poetry, literature and popular culture provide words when our own vocabularies fail.

Also includes suggestions for an order of service for funerals in church, at a crematorium or cemetery, prayers and readings for differing circumstances of death, prayers and readings before leaving home for a funeral.