Celebrating a Life: Planning Memorial Services and Other Creative Remembrances

This is a good book for someone who has no idea on how to plan a memorial service. It has some useful tips and did help me tie up some loose ends so I am glad I purchased it. I had a basic idea of what I wanted in our Celebration of Life so this book was a nice supplement to that.

Every family should have this little book on the bookshelf for when they need it. I wish I'd had this straight-forward, thoughtful and easy to follow resource when I was planning the memorial service for my mother. Faith Moore gracefully takes the reader through the various options available to people who wish to plan their own services, or to help the bereaved create a remembrance celebration that they feel does honor and justice to their loved one.The is also a workbook, helping us sort through our feelings and wishes about a topic that no one really wants to tackle, yet all of us must at some time. So, why not do so with the guidance of a compassionate, careful expert like this author?

CELEBRATING A LIFE is filled with great ideas for planning a memorial service for a loved one ... or for laying out what what you'd like in advance of your own death. I'd recommend print version over Kindle (which I have) because you need to be able to go back and forth to really make the most of the book.

The book gives some thought provoking ideas on making last arrangements; I was already aware of most of the suggestions having been a social worker with disabled and vulnerable adults, and hospice volunteer who was with clients in their final hours. However for someone new to death and dying this might be more helpful. All in all, I did get a couple of ideas for my mother's funeral.

Faith Moore is inspiring in providing a creative and elegant way to plan the celebration of your own life or to make that of a loved one more memorable. As always, Faith shows how it can be done with elegance and individuality to create a way to enhance the memory for friends and family members. I only wish I had had this book as my guide when my beloved mother died. Buy and know that you will be able to have the celebration of your life that you want.

There are some good ideas and inspiring material in this book. I was looking forward to reading it, but was slightly disappointed probably because my career was in marketing and I already had some ideas to plan my event. I'm sure Celebrating a Life will be very helpful to many people and it will inspire them in their planning of a party or memorial.

Not as good of a reference as I though it would be.

I had no idea how to go about planning a non-religious celebration of life for our mother who died recently. It was reassuring to find a guide.The memorial itself went very smoothly, and we received many compliments from guests.

A very useful handbook for people preparing to lead services of remembrance, funerals and the like as the book contains all sorts of gems, readings, and thoughts that will make a difference in a memorial event.