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The Deceased Preference Service (DPS)
The Deceased Preference Service has been set up in response to many requests from people who have been bereaved. The purpose of the service is to help you stop unwelcome post addressed to your deceased loved one, and to assist companies in combating criminal fraud which may be committed in the name of the deceased.


LifeGem
A LifeGem is a certified high quality diamond
created from the extracted carbon of cremated remains. LifeGems can now be created from a lock of hair, giving families who opt for burial the opportunity of LifeGem creation.

Phoenix Diamonds

Phoenix Diamonds manufacture high quality diamonds in a laboratory from 'Cremains', (funeral ashes) or hair. Beautiful canary yellow and blue diamonds to treasure and hand down through the generations provide an everlasting memorial of your loved one.

Motorcycle Funerals Limited
Britain's first and only motorcycle sidecar hearses.
Unique waterproof Motorbike combinations  for all motorcyclists.

Amazon.co.uk
The UK's largest online book seller - see below for some recommended reading, appropriate for funeral planning and the bereaved. See Suggested Reading and Amazon search box below.

Muchloved.com
 

 
 

Creating a Memorial Website as an alternative means of Commemoration

More and more people are now using the internet as a means of commemoration and a Memorial Website can help you to express, keep and display valuable personal memories and thoughts about your loved one.

On a Memorial Website you can express your feelings about your loved one not just in words but in pictures, music and even video. You can also use your site to enable family and friends, however far away they live, to send their thoughts and to contribute as well, maybe by adding a lovely picture you've never seen or a special story you've never heard.

A memorial website enables friends and family to come together, not only in sharing memories and thoughts, but in supporting each other during the long and painful grieving process. Some people will also use their site to pass on information to family & friends about the funeral and later on anniversaries and other important occasions. A growing number are even being used to try to help raise money for good causes in memory of their loved one.

In addition, memorial websites can be kept online indefinitely, meaning that you can create a lasting record and legacy to be kept in perpetuity for family and future generations to see.

To find out more, visit the website memorial charity MuchLoved

Suggested Reading

Click book images for further details, and to order online via Amazon.co.uk:

   
 
What can I do to help?
75 Practical Ideas for Family and Friends from Cancer's Frontline

by Deborah Hutton
ISBN 1904977391
Published by Short Books
   
How to have a good death
by Jane Feinmann
ISBN 1405316292
Published by Dorling Kindersley Limited
   
The Oxford Book of Death
(Oxford Books of Prose)

by D.J. Enright
ISBN 0192803808
Published by Oxford University Press
   
Cemetery Stories
Creepy Graveyards, Embalming Secrets and the Life of a Corpse After Death

by Katherine Ramsland ISBN 1904132022
Published by Fusion Press
   
Poems and Readings for Funerals

Edited by Julia Watson
ISBN 0141014962
Published by The Penguin Group

   
And In The End

by Keith R Lindsay
ISBN 1905745001
Published by Fusion Press
   
Get Dead (You’ve got to laugh)

by Jamie Oliver
ISBN 1905548265
Published by Friday Books
   
On Death and Dying

by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
ISBN 0684839385
Published by Scribner
     
The Complete Book of Funeral Planning,
Readings and Music


by R Johnstone-Burt
ISBN 0572030584
Published by Foulsham
 
 
The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion
ISBN 0007216858
Published by Harper Collins
   
Death, Dying and Bereavement

by Donna Dickenson
ISBN 0761968571
Published by SAGE Publications Ltd
   
The Motorcycle Hearse and Other Undertakings:
Stories from the Life and Work of a Hospital Chaplain

by Ian Morris
ISBN 095538110X
Published by Crossover Communications Ltd