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The Top 10 Books On Grief After the loss of a loved one, everyone experiences grief differently. However, grief extends beyond the person who suffered the loss. Those close to the person in mourning also feel the effects of grief, and are often at a loss when it comes to guidance or advice on what... View Article
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June 29, 2016Plan for the Future In life, we’re often tasked with having difficult discussions with family members. But in nearly every case, those discussions involve things that are for their own good. When you’re a caregiver taking care of an aging parent, these talks take on even more weight because discussing their mortality might be involved…. View Article
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June 24, 2016Grief Takes Time When a friend or a loved one loses someone important in their lives, we often feel helpless while they are grieving. This doesn’t have to be the case, of course, and there are plenty of things you can try helping someone else deal with grief. Most often we feel like we have… View Article
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June 24, 2016The Passing of a Loved One When a loved one dies, we’re suddenly saddled with emotions and grief, but we’re also responsible for accomplishing several tasks. If you’re a family member just passed, you have to take care of some critical items in order for the funeral to take place, which in turn allows for others… View Article
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June 14, 2016Famous Celebrity Funerals It’s always sad when we hear about a celebrity’s death, watching the news memorialize them makes us think back to how that person — whether they were a musician, actor/actress or something else that made them famous — affected our lives. We think about how their art might have inspired us or… View Article
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June 9, 2016Helping Someone With Grief We’ve all heard about the five stages of grief, but once we lose someone we love, it’s tough to understand just what to do when those stages affect us individually. Also, if someone else in your life is dealing with a loss, you’ll want to know just what to expect as… View Article
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June 7, 2016Cremation Benefits As the years go by, more and more people are starting to choose cremation over the traditional way of being buried after they die. Interestingly, the 2017 National Funeral Directors Association Cremation and Burial Report found that about 50.2 percent of Americans chose cremation in 2016, while 43.5 Americans opted for a traditional burial. The… View Article
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June 7, 2016To Will or Not to Will? Should you get your will done now or is it something you should wait to do until you’re ready? That’s a question people of many different ages ask themselves from their 30s through their 60s, wondering if it really matters that they do it now or later, when they… View Article
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June 2, 2016Dealing with the Death of a Loved One The death of a loved one is always a traumatic moment in our lives, but it’s usually something we all have to go through several times in our lives. But it never truly seems to get easier to do, since each person we lose is special in… View Article
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June 1, 2016Writing a Eulogy Giving a eulogy is something most of us prefer never to do because it means the recent loss of a loved one. But knowing how to write a eulogy well is a great way to convey love, respect and honor to your loved one, helping those in the audience remember their friend… View Article
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May 26, 2016Latest Funeral Trends Funeral services have evolved through the years, with different generations deciding the most common ways to say goodbye to loved ones. The Gardens of Boca Raton Cemetery and Chapel keep up with the latest trends in funeral services. Their focus is on the customer, and making sure family and loved ones have… View Article
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May 25, 2016Family-Owned Funeral Home Just like many other industries, big corporations have begun to buy up funeral homes across the country, which has taken away a lot of the personalization and comfort that comes from a family-owned funeral home, like The Gardens at Boca Raton – Cemetery and Chapel. These family-owned funeral homes have one goal… View Article
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May 19, 2016Funeral Etiquette A funeral is a custom many of us go through several times in our life, but it’s usually not often enough to gain the perfect amount of knowledge of funeral etiquette. For funeral directors and workers at funeral homes, like The Gardens at Boca Raton – Cemetery and Chapel, have gone through hundreds… View Article
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