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    When Your Loved One Dies: A Practical Funeral Preparation Guide for Family Members
    When Your Loved One Dies: A Practical Funeral Preparation Guide for Family Members
    When Your Loved One Dies: A Practical Funeral Preparation Guide for Family Members
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    When Your Loved One Dies: A Practical Funeral Preparation Guide for Family Members

    By Samuel W. Hale Jr.

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    This Funeral Guide is written to help Family Members address the sobering, yet necessary, responsibilities of carrying out the many and often unrealized tasks involved in managing the Funeral of a Loved One. It offers helpful insights, cautions, instructions, and Biblical Resources for dealing with the emotional impact of the Loss of a Loved One and moving forward with ones Life.

    Pastors and Counselors can also use this Guide in preparation for and counseling of Family Members. Bereavement Support Groups will also benefit from this Guide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateNov 10, 2011
    ISBN9781449729684
    When Your Loved One Dies: A Practical Funeral Preparation Guide for Family Members
    Author

    Samuel W. Hale Jr.

    A Graduate of the American Baptist College in Nashville, TN and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. Former Pastor of the historic Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Springfield, Illinois. His Ministerial Experience includes over sixty years of Pastoring, Teaching, Missions, Religious Journalism, and Church Ministry Development. He has written for the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc.; served as Director of Continuing Education at American Baptist College for eleven years and as Director of the Contemporary Ministries Workshop of the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education for over twenty years. He has served in various Mission and Christian Education capacities during his more than six decades of Christian Ministry. He has also authored the books “Confirmation for Ministry”, “The First Century Mission and The Twenty-First Century Church”, “When Your Loved One Dies – A Practical Funeral Preparation Guide for Family Members”, “Adventures of the Souls”, and “When Messias Comes.” One of his main Ministry Objectives is to make real the Teaching Mission of Jesus in Luke 24:45 - “Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures.”

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      When Your Loved One Dies - Samuel W. Hale Jr.

      Copyright © 2011 Samuel W. Hale, Jr.

      Original Printings

      1st Printing, August, 2000

      2nd Edition, March, 2002

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-2967-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-2968-4 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-2969-1 (hbk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011918766

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.westbowpress.com

      1-(866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Printed in the United States of America

      WestBow Press rev. date: 11/07/2011

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      MY PRAYER

      Chapter 10

      BECAUSE OF ME

      APPENDICES

      OBITUARY FORMAT

      PERSONAL INFORMATION INVENTORY

      THE FAMILY SEATING ORDER

      FUNERAL PROCESSION

      FUNERAL HOME

      SERVICE CHARGES

      FUNERAL PLANNING

      CHECK LIST

      SUGGESTED ORDERS

      OF SERVICE

      Dedication

      To Samuel W. Hale, III, my first-born son.

      Your sudden death has presented new and enlightening insights to this sobering experience of dealing with the loss of a Loved One.

      Thank you for the various experiences, which we have shared and the other projects, which we talked about doing.

      May our Memories of you challenge us to treasure Life and Family all the more.

      * * *

      When Your Loved One Dies,

      the Surviving Spouse and Family Members

      are faced with some startling discoveries

      which, if not dealt with properly, can cause some frightening and frustrating moments long before,

      and after, the Final Farewells to their Loved One

      shall have been expressed.

      When Your Loved One Dies

      offers some Practical and Important

      Information and Suggestions

      to Bereaving Family Members

      who have the Challenging Responsibilities

      of making the Funeral Arrangements for a Loved One;

      of Settling that Loved Ones’ Affairs;

      and also of assisting other Family Members

      as they confront and adjust to their Loved Ones’ Death.

      When Your Loved One Dies

      also provides information to help You gather Information on Yourself and other Family Members

      to help make Planning for Your Funeral

      lest cumbersome and problematic.

      * * *

      INTRODUCTION

      It just happened so suddenly!

      I never thought she would die so young.

      But, he just went to the Doctor’s last week…

      I wonder who’s going to take care of the Children.

      But we can’t afford that priced Casket!

      Momma deserves the Best!

      "But she said she was going to give Me that set of China!"

      Will? What Will?

      "Junior, when are You going to finish paying for Your Part of the Funeral Expenses?"

      * * *

      Perhaps YOU have heard some of these Statements being made in reference to the Death of some Friend or Loved One. Be it expected, sudden, or tragic, Death can be a most Frightening and Frustrating Experience for the Family Members. Inevitably, these and many other concerns, confront every Family at the Death of a Loved One. Many of them can be resolved before that Moment of Death Comes!

      This Practical Guide is intended to help You and Your Family through the process of Dealing with the many Elements and Issues that the Death of a Loved One may present.

      As You read this Guide may You be Enlightened, Comforted, Helped, Directed, Strengthened, and Challenged to help Your Family meaningfully deal with, prepare for, and carry out the Funeral Arrangements of Your Loved One. May You also be challenged to properly and effectively help Your Family Members be better able to accept and adjust to the Moment when You become the Loved One to be Funeralized. And may You also seek the Guidance, Strength, and Presence of the Holy Spirit to help You through each of You daily encounters.

      "LORD, make me to know mine end,

      And the measure of my days, what it is;

      That I might know how frail I am."

      - Psalm 39:4 (KJV)

      Chapter 1

      THE PLACE OF DEATH

      One of the first encounters with the Death of a Loved One occurs at the location in which that person actually dies. Sometimes it is at Home, or in the Hospital or Nursing Home, or at the Scene of an Accident. In either case, you will have to face various persons and situations which may bring additional trauma to

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