Funeral Partners focuses on children as challenging year closes 2020 was an unimaginable year for many families who had to deal with losing a loved one and embark on their grief journey during the pandemic and now the New Year has brought a new wave of Covid-19 restrictions.
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uneral Partners teams have witnessed first-hand the impact these challenging circumstances are having on the next generation and have been focusing on helping children to deal with their grief and confusion. Grief book offers some comfort Faced with the enormity of losing siblings, parents, or grandparents, it is often difficult for children to express their grief or to understand what is happening in their family. Funeral Partners funeral homes in Northern Ireland are offering some comfort by providing an interactive ‘book of remembrance’ aimed at
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answering some tough questions and helping children articulate special memories of the loved one they have lost. Each page of the fully illustrated book ‘Dear….’, published by Funer, helps the reader evoke memories of their loved one through the senses and encourages them to put pen to paper, to include photographs of people and places as reminders of happy times and explains the meanings of words which might be unfamiliar. Andrew Neale of James Brown & Sons Funeral Directors, Belfast, said: “Throughout 2020, we have seen the upset and confusion on the
