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Memorials made from ashes

Memorial service for a missing person

Memorial service for a missing person

About this experience

Memorial service for a missing person

Absence from those we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope more severely than despair. - William Cowper When someone disappears suddenly and, even after years of waiting, does not return or cannot be found, their family may eventually need a way to say goodbye. A ceremony can help with the process of letting go, even when a final spark of hope will probably always remain. We support you through this complicated grieving process and with arranging the ceremony. We help those present understand that it is not about forgetting the missing person. It is about living with the loss in a way that makes it possible to find some measure of closure and devote more energy to their own path through life. Such ceremonies can have a healing effect on immediate family, close friends and concerned acquaintances. Whether or not the missing person enters their lives again one day, they are absent now and those close to them grieve that loss. A memorial service gives these feelings space and pays fitting tribute to the person who is so deeply missed.

What people say

Translated from the original German

"Losing someone you love is very painful. Being able to design the coffin ourselves, together with the professional support we received, helped us enormously and made the death a little easier to comprehend. Thank you to your entire team."

Hildegard Wünsche

"Thank you for the many moving moments at our father's funeral service – it was exactly what he would have wanted!"

Sören Johannsen

"To say goodbye for ever to a beloved child – there is nothing worse. Thanks to you, I can carry part of my daughter close to my heart. My heartfelt thanks."

Constanze Wille

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