My Friend, Eric Butler is a Funeral Director, one of the finest I’ve ever had the privilege to work along side.
Eric has great compassion, superb skill and fantastic ways of companioning families through this early, painful grief work.
Eric has humongous humor.
In all of his years of service and expertise and mine as a funeral officiant, we’ve seen quite a lot of change in the actual Memorial Service. More and more are wanting to use it as a Celebration of Life with many people contributing stories, thoughts, memories, comments. Often I’m a Parentheses
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Getting the Service started with a welcome and sometimes a short prayer. . .
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And concluding it with appropriate thoughts after everyone has shared.
Eric has labeled these: KARAOKE FUNERALS.
Out of all the many Karaoke Funerals I’ve had, I certainly had a most unusual one lately.
The Funeral was for a 46 year old lady who died of a heroin overdose.
As just described, I opened the service by thanking everyone for coming out to celebrate and remember
“Mary’s” life and asked if anyone would like to share a thought, a memory, a story, a comment.