Goth and Alternative Funerals
Funerals, celebrations of life and memorial ceremonies are our final ceremonies. They should be unique ceremonies to say goodbye to a special and loved person, and which celebrate the individuality, lifestyle and character of the person who has died.
Goth and Alternative Funerals
Many goth and alternative funerals are led by celebrants who aren’t goths or alternative. This is usually because funeral directors do not offer the services of alternative funeral celebrants to families or people when they book a funeral for an alternative person. Funeral directors mostly use the same few funeral celebrants for all funerals, regardless of who a person was. In fact, most funeral directors do not have an alternative funeral celebrant on their books as they prefer to use the same celebrants for most ceremonies.
Your Alternative Funeral
When the time comes for your final ceremony, would you like it to be created and led by a celebrant who is also an alternative person, one who will help your partner, family and friends celebrate your individually? Would you like your uniqueness and the alternative lifestyle you led to be acknowledged? We plan our wedding and other life event ceremonies based on our lifestyles; you can also plan your funeral based on these too. It isn’t morbid to make our ceremony wishes known to others. It takes the pressure of having to do this from our partners, families and friends, helping them to grieve.
Death is part of life and something which happens to us all, but ‘love never dies’.
Memorials For Alternative People
Memorial ceremonies usually take place after cremation or a burial. Since direct cremations became popular, the need for a ceremony has been experienced by many people. Direct cremation removes the opportunity to say goodbye and there isn’t a funeral or a ceremony.
A person may decide to have a direct cremation or an unattended burial to save money or to prevent their loved ones from having to experience the sorrow of a funeral. Memorial ceremonies give back the opportunity to say goodbye. Funerals are an essential part of the grieving process and without a funeral how can we grieve if we can’t say goodbye?
Direct cremations might be cheaper, but what is the overall cost of not being able to say goodbye?
An individualised, life centred memorial ceremony is favoured by many people as how we ‘do funerals’ has changed. Memorial ceremonies are held in pubs, clubs, venues or homes. Everyone gathers to hear music the person who died liked, family and friends wear what they want to wear (not clothing reserved for weddings and funerals only), food is shared, and glasses are raised, quotes, images and favoured objects can be displayed, stories and personal tributes are shared without the strict time constraints enforced at a crematorium.
Pagan Funerals
As a Pagan Priestess and a Pagan funeral celebrant, I can create a ceremony of goodbye with rituals and life centred celebration for Pagan people.
If you are looking for a goth, Pagan or an alternative funeral celebrant, I can be contacted and booked directly, or a funeral arranger/funeral director can do it on your behalf. I travel across the UK if required.
We only have one chance to say goodbye, and to have a ceremony reflective of who a person was is essential, especially for alternative people who live our lives being individuals through self-expression.
