All About Funeral Directors
Funeral directors provide a lot of Bristol, FL funeral services. Without these funeral directors and the services provided by them, grieving families would bear the burden of handling all the matters related to the burial of the loved ones on their own.
It’s important to understand that funeral directors genuinely care about grieving families. It’s often a misconception that being exposed to death every day, as funeral directors are, that they become immune to emotional response or reactions when someone dies.
They do not. They feel the sense of loss, and if the deceased is a child or someone who died a violent death, the loss hits funeral directors even more deeply.
Funeral directors have experienced loss somewhere along the way in their lives. It may be the loss of immediate family members or the loss of friends or colleagues, but they’ve been where grieving families are, so they know how to meet them there and meet the needs they have there.
However, funeral directors are professionals. So like physicians or surgeons who may be delivering bad news or providing care for terminal illnesses, funeral directors must keep their own emotions and reactions in check in order to best serve the needs of grieving families. But it never means they don’t care.
As funeral homes have advanced and expanded the services they provide to their communities, they have also diversified their staffing, so that now more funeral directors are younger and more women are becoming funeral directors. This enables the funeral home to better meet all the needs of all the families who come to them in their time of sorrow.
It’s important to understand that the job of a funeral director is not an easy one. Funeral directors are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round. Like medical professionals, funeral directors can get a call at any time and have to leave, no matter whether it’s the middle of a family wedding, a child’s birthday celebration, or at the beginning of Thanksgiving dinner.
For funeral directors, the needs of other people (when they lose a loved one) are the priority. The funeral director’s needs always take a backseat. That is a sacrifice that funeral directors willingly make to serve their communities.
It’s important to understand that funeral directors are there to take care of the deceased, the grieving family, and every aspect, from beginning to end, of the funeral process. The funeral director will provide guidance in every area where a decision needs to be made. This will include things like choosing burial or cremation, choosing whether to have a funeral service, if having a funeral service, deciding where and when, choosing burial sites, choosing caskets, and choosing flowers, to name a few.
Funeral directors don’t want grieving families to have any regrets regarding their deceased loved one. That is why they’ll often encourage the families to hold either a funeral service or a memorial service. Either of these types of services help initiate the healing process and provide a sense of closure about the death of a loved one. Having a service of some kind can eliminate the possibility of regrets down the road.
A final thing to know about funeral directors is that they are truly committed to making sure all the needs of grieving families are met. They are not aloof and uncaring, but instead invested in all the funeral services they provide and perform for the family.
For more information about Bristol, FL funeral services, our caring and knowledgeable staff at Lifesong Funerals & Cremations is here to assist you. You can visit our funeral home at 20 S. Duval St., Quincy, FL 32351, or you can call us today at (850) 627-1111.
