Even so, little has been done to tackle the practicalities of arranging a funeral.
[wife, aged 70] Several carers discussed busying themselves with practicalities of probate and funeral arrangements.
Now collected in Undying: A Love Story, they chart the ravages of her illness and treatment, the intimacies of caring for her, the awful practicalities and the emotional abyss of a funeral and its aftermath.
Remo was only fifty then, and it didn't appear as though he had his mind set on being gone, yet after Ombretta's funeral — at which he'd helped out with stoic practicality — something in him seemed broken.
Australian scholar, artist, and funeral celebrant, Pia Interlandi combined fashion design, fiber science, forensics, and practicality in her use of water-soluble fibers, experimental burials and exhumations of clothed pigs, and her line called "Garments for the Grave" designed with easy dressing of the human dead in mind.
Funeral poverty is a growing problem in this country, but our inherent squeamishness around talking about the practicalities of death how a decomposing body can be physically taken care of, with respect means it continues to be ignored.
When a family is trying to arrange a funeral for someone they love, the funeral director's job isn't just about the nuts and bolts practicalities, either.
Imagine the practicalities.
Practicalities were ignored.
And third, the practicalities.
