hestiaIdeas for a farewell
For the people who cannot be there
A private stream for family abroad, or a recording for someone too ill to travel. It is worth asking early, because not every room is set up for it and the family doing the planning rarely thinks of it until too late.
How it can look
- A private link, for invited people only, not posted anywhere.
- A recording afterwards rather than a live stream, which is easier to arrange.
- A phone held up by a cousin, which is enough and costs nothing.
Words you can use with a funeral director
Some of our family cannot travel. Is there a way for them to join privately, and is that something you arrange or something we would bring in?
This sits with
Other ideas families have used
- Doing it laterThe burial or cremation now, quietly, and the gathering weeks later when people can travel…
- A table of their lifeA long table, and the things they actually touched. Reading glasses, a tool from the shed,…
- Music that was actually theirsNot what is usually played, but what they really listened to. The song from the kitchen…