Dealing With The Cremation Services of a Distant Relative
It’s hard to lose anyone you know, but when a distant relative passes on and there are cremation services in Daytona Beach, FL, you might feel particularly awkward about what is going on. You want to help your family members who are grieving, and you may even have a response to the death as well. There are no right or wrong ways to deal with grief and everyone will react differently. Here are a few things you can do.
Attend the Services, If Possible
If you live in the area, or can make the trip, it’s never a bad idea to attend the cremation services if you are invited. You can catch up with family, come to terms with the death, and comfort others who may be grieving on a different level. Memorial services aren’t something that happen more than once, generally, so if you can make it to the service, even if you aren’t sure if you want to go or not, you won’t likely regret it later. If you don’t go, you might have regrets.
Offer To Help
Even if the relative is distant to you, there are people in your family who are very close to that person. Offering to help them with the reception, organize flowers afterwards, pick up food or run errands or anything else you can think of can really help them out. You’re a family member and they might be more likely to take your help than someone else. But you are less likely to have heavy grief so you can handle more.
Acknowledge Your Own Emotions
When a distant relative passes away, you may feel a range of things. There might just be a twinge of sadness over a death or there might be buried grief that you don’t recognize right away. You might even feel sad over the fact that dying is inevitable and everyone has to go through it. Or you might feel deep compassion and sympathy for the situation and those closest to your family member. Whatever you are feeling, it is probably normal, but you need to recognize and deal with those emotions, just like anyone who is going through a loss.
Grief brings complicated emotions and just because you aren’t the closest person to the distant relative doesn’t mean you won’t have feelings about the situation. IF you’re able, attend the cremation services in Daytona Beach, FL and see what you can do to help. You can also always contact Fourtowns Cremation, Inc. at (386) 774-8055 with questions about various services or to get advice on ways you can help. We’re here to support your family in any way we can. We understand difficult times and we know that there are different levels to grief. Visit with our director at 1235 Saxon Blvd, Orange City, FL 32763 and get the information you need to help your family through this difficult time in life when facing the death of someone who was a member of the family.
