If you were to say 15 years ago there would be a huge demand for custom made coffins you would be laughed at. It's against protocol and far from blends in with the traditional theme of a funeral. However, it’s August 2015 and there is growing demand among grieving families for coffins that genuinely reflect the personality of the people being mourned. Not only this, with the popularity of Funeral...
Recently we were researching traditional funeral rites in other cultures when we stumbled across an article by an American Funeral organisation on the traditional Irish Funeral. It went into great detail to talk about the process involved in our traditional three-day wake. From opening windows in the house to allow the spirit escape, stopping all clocks and tying the two toes together to stop the...