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Lonergan & Raven Funerals

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9489 8711

Address: 187 Queens Parade 3068 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.ravensfunerals.com.au

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22.01.2022 Given the number of Facebook pages in existence this is something to consider.

22.01.2022 In 2017, Brené Brown wrote Funerals matter. Showing up for them matters....The collective pain (and sometimes joy) we experience when gathering in any way to celebrate the end of a life is perhaps one of the most powerful experiences of inextricable connection. Here, Meghan ORourke wonders what will happen when we cant be physically together.

21.01.2022 An American article but most of it still applies here in Victoria.

21.01.2022 To limit the spread of Covid-19, you wont be able to visit you loved ones grave if it is located in a Mausoleum. (Were assuming you live close enough to visit as part your daily exercise outing.) These Mausolea are closed to visitors outside of interment ceremonies: Gallery of the Saints, Keilor Cemetery; Plaza of the Holy Angels, Fawkner Memorial Park; ... Preston Mausoleum, Preston Cemetery; Yarra Valley Mausoleum See more

21.01.2022 Death is a natural part of our existence and therefore should not be hidden in the shadows.

21.01.2022 PSA: The version we use at the Wilde residence is equally as annoying.

20.01.2022 Good morning Melbourne! We hope you are staying safe & staying home? We don’t want you - or your loved ones - coming into our care any sooner than necessary. So please, wear your mask, WEAR IT PROPERLY, wash your hands & stay home as much as you can. We’re happy to wait for your business.

19.01.2022 As I read the poem for him and his family, I thought again about my own brother and felt comforted, for the first time in weeks, that I was not alone. I was sharing a valued life among the living. Tony Birch shares an essay in todays The Conversation about grieving, about our relationship with our stuff, and about growing up in Fitzroy.

19.01.2022 Candle Making from the amazing British Pathé TV, 1963. Via the research of @chicojefferson for #juxsaturdayschool

18.01.2022 Saturday morning inspiration: you can honour a loved one in so many creative ways. How beautiful is this work by local artist Anisa Sharif? (shared with permission)

18.01.2022 This is a lovely prose poem sent to me by an old mate. (And yes, you can be turned into a diamond, in case you were wondering.)

18.01.2022 When your loved one is an avid veggie gardener, you need to honour that. When your loved one cant abide waste, you have to honour that too! Thanks, as ever, to Greg Roycroft Terrace Gardens Florist for your generous creative mind & hands. There are so many ways, large & small, to reflect and reflect on a life.

18.01.2022 Death makes everyone feel uncomfortable, but unless we get used to being a bit uncomfortable, with thinking & talking about it, when our turn (eventually)comes well be left to cope alone in a desert of silence.

17.01.2022 Everyone grieves in their own way.

16.01.2022 Since not everything is online (yet) a sensible plan. Also, think about what's online too.

15.01.2022 Good morning Melbourne! We hope you are staying safe & staying home? We dont want you - or your loved ones - coming into our care any sooner than necessary. So please, wear your mask, WEAR IT PROPERLY, wash your hands & stay home as much as you can. Were happy to wait for your business.

13.01.2022 8 reasons your grief feels worse right now. This is true whether its a recent loss or a grief from long ago. You arent imagining it, and youre not alone.

13.01.2022 3 secrets that may make it possible to grieve and to live at the same time https://www.ted.com//lucy_hone_3_secrets_of_resilient_peop

13.01.2022 A bit of history from Europe https://www.theparisreview.org///can-these-dry-bones-live/

13.01.2022 Someone else making the most of our beautiful garden

12.01.2022 Nigel interviewed on abc radio today. (He is currently serving as NFDA President.) 6mins 12 secs

11.01.2022 Only available in England but it's amazing how many options are available today for your loved one's ashes.

11.01.2022 Its inspiring all the creative ways people have found to honour those who have died during the pandemic restrictions.

10.01.2022 Saturday, time for a look at the lighter - or at least the quirkier - aspect of funerals. A friend brought this animation to our attention.

09.01.2022 Mothers Day can be a tough gig after your mum has died. Here are four ideas that may help. (Physical distancing is giving the rest of us a glimpse into that future...while most of us will get to video chat tomorrow, you may find these tips useful anyway.) 1. Remember something positive.... Think of a time when your mum was there for you, or some ways youre a better person thanks to your mums presence in your life. 2. Talk to other people who knew her. It may feel that you know everything there is to know about your mum, but if you talk to others you may hear different stories. Maybe share your story from 1. too. You may both benefit. 3. If your loss hurts, take a few minutes to write about it. When a memory feels painful, dont shy away. Take a moment and examine it. Then write it down in as much detail as possible. This is just for you, you wont share what you write. This type of writing can help over time. 4. Think about things you can do to honor your Mum and reconnect with her memory. Make a photo or memento collage. If it feels right, share it with others who knew her. Read a book / watch a film / listen to music she enjoyed. Donate money to her favourite charity or cause. (Ideas sourced from Dr. Acacia Parks as quoted in an article on www.wellandgood.com)

09.01.2022 An experience of collective pain does not deliver us from grief or sadness; it is a ministry of presence. These moments remind us that we are not alone in our darkness and that our broken heart is connected to every heart that has known pain since the beginning of time. Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness,

08.01.2022 Disputes over funeral arrangements have happened throughout history. Read or listen: how superstar Victorian writer Charles Dickens wishes for a quiet private funeral were overturned.

08.01.2022 This is "Good Friday 2020" by Polish Jesuit Vyacheslav Okun, who is a professor of philosophy at the Jesuit Ignatian University in Krakow and also at the Vatican. You may have seen it on social media already this weekend. Our friend Dr Sarah Randles, is an art historian and a historian of emotion. She has some interesting things to say about it, which were sharing with permission. This is based on Caravaggio's Entombment of Christ 1603/4, but more broadly on a ...type of image known as the Deposition - those that show the removal of Christ's dead body from the cross. This kind of image became very popular in the late Middle Ages, along with the Pietà or Vesperbild - the image of the Virgin Mary holding the body of her dead son - and alongside images of the crucifixion that focused on the emotions of those who witnessd it. It's not a coincidence that this kind of image emerged after the Black Death had ravaged Europe and when those who survived were suffering from collective trauma. Before this period, images of the Resurrection were more popular - a facet of the Christian story that started to diminish in popular Christian imagery thereafter. Reading this image through that lens, I see it as a meditation on grief, exhaustion and love, picturing a moment of despair. It sends the message, as the original did, that God is with humanity in their suffering. And in a Christian context, it is framed in the knowledge that there will be a resurrection - something that is conveyed by the way Christ's body is bathed in light from a source that is not shown in the image, and, in Caravaggio's original but not this version, by Mary Magdalen raising her eyes to heaven. This image also allows us to draw a parallel between the sacrifice of today's medics and their selfless sacrifices to save human lives with Christ's sacrifice for human redemption. Check out Caravaggios original here: https://en.wikipedia.org//The_Entombment_of_Christ_(Carava

07.01.2022 Their life mattered. Their death mattered.

04.01.2022 Sometimes I lie in bed and count the likely number of days I might have left to me, and it always seems both a lot and not enough. And then I forget what the number was because after all, how can there even be a world without me in it? Kevin Brophy, who was my tutor at Melbourne University, has written a beautiful essay that left me with tearful eyes and a lightened heart. https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-on-reckoning-with-

04.01.2022 On the number 10. Its hard not to focus on a number. The government has to. They need a legal boundary they can police, a line to divide whats ok from whats not ok.... Our communities, already reeling from massive restrictions to daily life, and the loss of normal, are finding the limits on weddings and funerals especially tough. These milestone events are seen as outside of everyday life, exempted from the usual rules. Its hard to accept that this time they cant be. Our communities need us to lead. Its what a Funeral Director is for, using our hard won experience to guide them through one of lifes hardest challenges. You can have a wonderful funeral with less than 10 mourners. We know, we have assisted in many. You can have a terrible funeral in spite of 200 mourners and no obvious errors. Its possible youve assisted in those too. Theyre the ones that kept you awake at night, wondering what you will do differently next time. This latest challenge isnt about numbers, is it? Its also not about which technology will let us broadcast a cut down version of what we used to do in the olden days of last year. Thats where weve been this past week or two, as we frantically arranged, and rearranged, and re-rearranged funerals while the legal ground shifted under our feet. Our profession has been amazing, though the shell-shocked bereaved we served arent in a position to appreciate our efforts much. Its not about giving in to the demands of our distressed clients. Especially if thats to let another couple of mourners in, or to let them ignore physical distancing. They are trying to get through their immediate loss, and the state of emergency is mainly on their radar as adding insult to injury by robbing them of the comfort of the familiar and expected. What it is about is finding different ways to do what a funeral is for. Its about giving mourners a chance to publicly acknowledge the death, and farewell their deceased loved one, without risking lives. None of us wants the traumatic business boom from unintentionally helping along the pandemic. The sufferings of our colleagues in Lombardy are a vivid example of the future we want to avoid. We have their perspective, and with that an opportunity to do better. Funerals and mourning rituals change whenever they dont fit the needs or the spirit of the times. Right now, the most generous and brave thing we can do is accept the world has changed, and broaden our focus. 10 is just a number, its not the answer to life, the universe and everything.

04.01.2022 With so many of us staying safe at home solo, we are more grateful than ever for our animal companions. DEWEY 1898 - 1910 He was only a cat" ... but he was human enough to be a great comfort in hours of loneliness and pain. Photo Credit: Paul Koudounaris on instagram

03.01.2022 Its the weekend, must be time for a frivolous post, just make you laugh (or cringe). With bonus link https://www.psychologytoday.com//the-healing-power-laughte

01.01.2022 For today a picture of someone literally hearsing around