Social Distancing With Funeral Homes

Losing a loved one is always tough, but if you’ve lost a loved one recently, you might be concerned about honoring their memory with funeral homes in Shillington, PA because you need to keep socially distant from others. There are plenty of things you can do to make sure your loved one is well cared for without risking sickness around you. Here are a few tips that the professionals might bring up as you start to plan:

Virtual Services

Most funeral homes have adjusted and have become very flexible in these trying times. Many of them offer virtual services so you can honor your loved one with whoever you want to invite, and yet stay separated at the same time. You can, for example, do a conference call where family members and friends remain in their own homes, but everyone is virtually seeing the same service. Musicians can play from their own homes and someone can even give a eulogy. These services might be the closest you can get to including everyone who wants to attend in a safe manner.

Small Services

Since you can’t gather in a large group right now, but you want your loved one to have an honoring service sooner rather than later, you can simply move forward with a small, simple service with your closest family members. Then, once time has passed and things clear up, you can have a memorial service that feels similar to a full funeral with everyone involved. There are never too many ways to honor someone.

Organize A Charitable Donation

There are lots of charities that are in need of help—both now and always. One way to honor your loved one without a full-fledged public funeral is to ask people who might have attended the service to make a donation in their name to a certain charity. That can make an impact and bring a lot of honor to your loved one’s name at the same time. They might have even preferred that these funds went to something meaningful over a full funeral for themselves.

Recorded Services

It’s also a possibility to move forward with a service, albeit a small one, and then record those services to distribute to others who want to see it. You can audio or video record services and then let other more distant family and friends see what happened so they can participate in their own way.

If you need to have final services for a loved one right now, funeral homes in Shillington, PA. Can help you figure out what the best answer is for your specific situation. There’s nothing easy about today’s world and losing a loved one in the midst can make things all that much harder. The professionals at Bean Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, Inc. are here to help you every step of the way. We can help you organize everything you want to set up either online or on the phone if you don’t want to come in in person.