The After Project
FUNERAL BLOG LIFE, Death & RANDOM MUSINGS The After Project It is often after the funeral which is the hardest. The initial shock or deep grief can have a numbing effect, self-preservation as you’re suddenly spun into conversations about funerals, music choices, differing family opinions, and probate. Planning the service can effectively give you a ‘job’ to do. Something to organise, often whilst feeling totally surreal. And then you go home, after the service. Perhaps to an empty house, perhaps to a family who have lost a parental guide, a sibling, or a carer, and go… now what? How do I do this? Friends say to pop round if you need anything, but you don’t want to be a burden, and family slowly begin to pick up their own lives, perhaps many miles away, because as much as we want it to, life doesn’t stop, even though, for us, it…