Funeral traditions are as old as human culture itself, predating modern Homo sapiens, to at least 300,000 years ago. In it’s simplest form, a funeral is a\u00a0ceremony for celebrating, respecting, sanctifying, and remembering the life of a person who has died. Historically, the word ‘funeral’ comes from the Latin ‘funus’, which had a plethora of meanings.<\/p>\n
Using the drop-down menu above you can access a selection of information about Funeral Customs we have written to help you.<\/p>\n
We’ve used our years of experience to create this\u00a0guide to contemporary British Funeral Customs which we hope you\u2019ll find helpful.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Funeral traditions are as old as human culture itself, predating modern Homo sapiens, to at least 300,000 years ago. In it’s simplest form, a funeral is a\u00a0ceremony for celebrating, respecting, sanctifying, and remembering the life of a person who has died. Historically, the word ‘funeral’ comes from the Latin ‘funus’, which had a plethora of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-second-level.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddocks-funerals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddocks-funerals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddocks-funerals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddocks-funerals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddocks-funerals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maddocks-funerals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maddocks-funerals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}