UNDERTAKING
As undertakers, the service we provide always includes the following...
Undertaking in Devon and Cornwall
- An initial conversation, either in person, over the phone, or by video call, to discuss the situation, your options, and to work out how we can support you.
- All funeral administration, practical arrangements and paperwork.
- Our care, attention, advice and continued support throughout the arrangements, whether this takes a week, four weeks or more.
- We will be here for you, to hear your stories, discuss the person who has died, get to know them and you.
- We also have chapel of rest at our office in Dartington, where you can spend time with the person, if you choose too, and are not having a Direct Cremation.
- The collection of the person from anywhere in Devon or Cornwall.
- The gentle and sensitive care of the person who has died, including washing and dressing them and laying them out in any chosen clothes.
- If the funeral is not a direct cremation, then we also provide support to create the ceremony and to choose individual aspects within this.
- Transportation of the person to the funeral.
- Ourselves on the day.
Please note that we do not employ bearers, and do this deliberately. Carrying and lowering the coffin into a grave, or lifting it up onto the catafalque, is something we do together, as we believe this helps to physically embody the reality of what is happening. Either four or six people are required for this. We do not carry on the shoulders, and all our coffins have load bearing handles, and we are with you will be every step of the way.
We follow environmentally friendly practises wherever we can and do not embalm.
