Personal Experiences
Please click on the links below to read personal accounts from families who have held funerals at Crossways Woodland Burials.
When Henry Died
I’m in Intensive Care with my sister Jane, by our father’s bedside. My mother, Joyce, and my other sister Demelza, are taking a brief break. Henry has been on life support for almost a month. An hour ago, after informing us, the doctors...
Our Family Funeral
My partner and I took our hired car and drove to the mortuary. My niece, who had only been able to see Henry when he was unconscious in hospital, arrived and we all went in together. The mortuary staff are not obliged to help lift the body into the coffin, but ours was most helpful. We lay Henry’s body onto his favourite dressing gown....
Carol Trewin’s Funeral
Death occurs in many ways. Sometimes it is sudden like car crash but for others the process is long and drawn out. My partner Carol Trewin was well known as a writer, BBC Radio 4 producer and journalist. For many years she had worked as the farming and then food editor of the Western Morning News. She covered BSE and then....
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