Recommended reading

The Druid Way by Philip Carr-Gomm is all about the journey of life-and-death and has a sample funeral.

A Druid Funeral (booklet published by The British Druid Order), available from The Druid Network.

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying - the Reclaiming Collective. An excellent book including meditations and reflections on death and dying, funerals, supporting carers and the bereaved, poetry, and much more. Highly recommended.

The New Book of the Dead by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
A book of rituals and meditations for the process of dying, coming to terms with grief, and funeral rites.

A Witch Amongst Us by Lois Bourne
Includes some excellent and very interesting material on her time as a nurse, when she spent a lot of time nursing the terminally ill, and saw their deceased relatives coming to guide them on the way to the other world.

Engineers of the imagination publications, especially The Dead Good Funerals Book.

Lament: Scottish Poems for Funerals and Consolation
ISBN No: 1904598528

Handfast: Scottish Poems for Weddings and Affirmations
ISBN No: 1904598242

Handsel: Scottish Poems for Welcoming and Naming Babies
ISBN No: 190459851X

Natural Death Handbook - full text of the previous edition, plus an order form for the most recent edition