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When a loved one’s passing is near, the last months and weeks can take a huge emotional toll on relatives and caregivers who feel powerless to change the current circumstances. While no one has control over the forces of life and death, we do still have to make difficult decisions in the final days and cope with our own feelings of grief, stress and pain. That feeling of loss may be overwhelming even before our loved one has died. In this challenging time, what can often help family members most (besides a willing and sympathetic ear) is the sense that read more …

Suffering from a loss of a loved one?  In this coping with grief guide, our aim at Affordable Burials and Cremations is to help you get back to the feeling of normal. When a loss of life occurs, it can be hard to come to terms with what has happened. For some people, the feelings of numbness and disbelief can even become denial that the person is gone. Most of us have experienced the feeling that our loved one is just in the next room; we keep expecting them to make an appearance, we keep waiting for them to say read more …

When you have lost a loved one, it’s impossible to be fully prepared for the impact of that loss, even if the death was expected for a long time. You may feel immediate and overwhelming grief; complete numbness is also a common reaction, as are anxiety, guilt, fear, and many others. While only your closest friends and relatives can truly help to relieve the sense of emptiness and pain you may be experiencing, at this difficult time, anything at all that brings a measure of comfort is highly valuable. That is the purpose of keepsake jewelry: to provide comfort and read more …

People who have life-threatening illnesses, and their families, might find that the illness itself is made worse by a host of painful emotions, including fear, anxiety, worry, grief, guilt, denial, anger, and many others. These emotions, as well as other important considerations such as a person’s mental health and spiritual needs, aren’t often addressed by traditional medicine. In situations like these, palliative care can step in to improve quality of life and provide help and guidance to the patient and their family. What is palliative care? A dictionary definition of ‘palliative’ refers to a remedy that doesn’t treat the underlying read more …

Canada’s aging population is a definite social and political issue, but what does that mean for the average Canadian and dealing with end of life issues? More and more of us will be caring for aging parents in the coming years, and health care professionals are forecasting a big challenge: meeting the needs of a drastically increased number of elderly patients who may be suffering from serious physical and mental health issues near the end of their lives. If you worry about how you will be able to cope with caring for and transitioning your loved ones who are seriously read more …

Whether you want to make arrangements for your own or a loved one’s cremation in advance, or whether you urgently need to arrange for a cremation, there are important things to take into account.. When searching for cremation services Toronto, you will need to consider the wishes of the person who is to be cremated, your own wishes as executor and/or representative of the larger group of family members and mourners, and budgetary concerns, among other criteria. It can seem like an overwhelming task, but a trusted and knowledgeable source of advice does exist: Affordable Burials and Cremations. We are read more …

In this installment of our affordable cremation services Toronto tips, we want to help you with what to say when someone passes away. There are few situations in which people find themselves as tongue-tied as when they are trying to figure out what to say when someone has passes away. Obviously the right thing to do is to offer condolences to the loved ones who are left behind – but what exactly can one say to the bereaved, that won’t come out sounding stilted or condescending, or even hurtful? Despite having the best of intentions, many people feel so stymied read more …

When dealing with grief, there is no one right way, and in fact, no one has the right to tell you how you ought to grieve when you have suffered the loss of a loved one. It’s natural to grieve the death of someone you loved and cared about, but people grieve in different ways and at different times. We all know someone who has suffered great losses in life, but seems to keep their grief so deeply buried they seem to not be affected at all; equally, we have friends and family members who are devastated years after their read more …