Music to Enter
Welcome
- Greeting
- Thanking people for coming
- Introductions
- Announcements (Hospitality, Donations)
- Explanations of anything unusual about the service
- Sympathy to the family on behalf of all present and others not able to attend (include members of the extended family and all who grieve, whatever their relationship…grandparents, grandchildren, elderly parents…)
Words on Life and Death
Music/hymn/song
Tribute/Eulogy/Celebration of Life
Silent Period
(with music perhaps) for personal thoughts and memories or silent prayer (“The silence will be broken by the reading of…”)
Reading/Poem
Special Help
(if appropriate)
Closing Words
Hope for the future
Reading/Poem
Committal
Or, if committal is at another venue, ask the gathered to stand while coffin is carried out
Recessional Music
(ref: Down to Earthby Marian Barnes)