At Akasia Funeral Services, we strive to provide a personal and meaningful experience celebrating the life of your loved one.

From the time we accept your loved one into our care, the memorial service and interment in the cemetary or cremation urn, we endeavour to promote a meaningful experience promoting the healing for family and friends who are grieving their loss.

Death comes to all of us...

Few are prepared for the inevitability and finality of death — especially the death of a loved one.

More often than not, we are caught unawares in the storm that surrounds the death of a loved one, grieving for your loss, as well as the planning of a funeral and the preparation for the interment and laying to rest the remains.

Aside from the many formalities, rituals, processes, procedures, activities and legalities associated with the loss of a loved one, the mission of Akasia Funeral Services is to facilitate the seamless transition throughout in order to start the healing process for the bereaved.

Grieve can be an insurmountable bridge to cross. Yet, grieving is merely the first step in the healing process for the bereaved.

Akasia Funeral Services believes that emotional support and grieve counselling is most essential during this dark period in the lives of the bereaved.

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Below are the basics steps when planning a funeral:

• Set goals
• Review limitations
• Look at the available options
• Weigh the advantages and disadvantages of the available options
• Talk to others about the options
• Finalise and commit to the guidelines which have been decided upon

Finally, consult with the funeral service provider and/or undertaker in order to put your plan in action.

Typically, at a Memorial Services the ("physical") remains of the loved one is not preset wherever the gathering takes place. Below are a few considerations to take into account when planning and preparing for a Memorial Service:

₁ Who will be invited or attending?
Will the Memorial Service be privately or publicly held?

Either write down the names of the attendees likely to attend and check with out-of-town relatives and friends before finalising and settling on the number of attendees to attend to or cater for.

₂ Where and when will the event be taking place?
Bear in mind that the scheduling of the event is more often controlled by travel-related issues facing those who will be invited and/or attending the event. Check in with out-of-town relatives and friends about their situations before settling on critical dates.

₃ Who will lead or conduct the event?
Approach or request the Reverend/Pastor/Evangelist (or "other") of your loved one to perform the role of officiant or celebrant. However, circumstances such as the availability of the preferred celebrant will determine the final outcome.

₄ Who will speak at the event?
Many times family membersor friends will be very direct about their desire to make a short oresentation at their Memorial Service; other times you need to come out and ask folks if they would be willing to publicly share their thoughts and feelings. Either way, you will have to select those people who jave shared a close relationship with the deceased and have something meaningful to to contribute.

₅ What group activities would be appropriate at the event?
Over the years a host of different activities have emerged — all enthinically-diverse as the cultural landscape of Namibia. The question would be which activity your loved one attached greater importance to. The activities are as remarkable as poetry reading, soloist or choir song, tribal dance or merely sharing laughter or crying together.

₆ What food or beverages should be served?
What food offerings you serve depends on the theme of the Memorial Service; a catered event, your loved one's favourite dishes, a "pot luck" celebration with meals contributions brought to the table by family and friends of the loved one.

₇ What readings or music should be included?
Music is an integral part of many peoples lives and a Memorial Service is often the perfect event to showcase the multitudes of talent available. The diversity and limitation of the renditions is determined by you.

₈ What details of your loved one´s do you want to share with guests?
A preacher walked into a funeral service with a bucket filled with stones. He turned to a very curious congregation and said invitingly, "I invite anyone who is without sin and regrets to come pick up a handful of stones to cast it at the deceased and their family."

A Memorial Service, Funeral Service or a Cremention is never an appropriate event to air past transgressions or affect petty revenge.

Share something meaningful memories which had special meaning to your loved.

₉ What decorations or displays will you have?
It has been our experience that a trend amongst familities who have lost loved ones, that they create a repeating video or slideshow, besides the massive sprays of flower arrangements.

Momentoes and keepsakes such as personalised name tags, framed photographs, keychains, etc. have also enjoyed great appreciation amongst family and friends.

Different to a Memorial Service, as above, the "physical remains" of the deceased is on display — at the explicit request of the family.

₁ Who will be invited or attending?
Will the Funeral Service be privately or publicly held?

Either write down the names of the attendees likely to attend and check with out-of-town relatives and friends before finalising and settling on the number of attendees to attend to or cater for.

₂ Where and when will the event be taking place?
Bear in mind that the scheduling of the event is more often controlled by travel-related issues facing those who will be invited and/or attending the event. Check in with out-of-town relatives and friends about their situations before settling on critical dates.

₃ Who will lead or conduct the event?
Approach or request the Reverend/Pastor/Evangelist (or "other") of your loved one to perform the role of officiant or celebrant. However, circumstances such as the availability of the preferred celebrant will determine the final outcome.

₄ Who will speak at the event?
Many times family membersor friends will be very direct about their desire to make a short oresentation at their Memorial Service; other times you need to come out and ask folks if they would be willing to publicly share their thoughts and feelings. Either way, you will have to select those people who jave shared a close relationship with the deceased and have something meaningful to to contribute.

₅ What group activities would be appropriate at the event?
Over the years a host of different activities have emerged — all enthinically-diverse as the cultural landscape of Namibia. The question would be which activity your loved one attached greater importance to. The activities are as remarkable as poetry reading, soloist or choir song, tribal dance or merely sharing laughter or crying together.

₆ What readings or music should be included?
Music is an integral part of many peoples lives and a Memorial Service is often the perfect event to showcase the multitudes of talent available. The diversity and limitation of the renditions is determined by you.

₇ What details of your loved one´s do you want to share with guests?
A preacher walked into a funeral service with a bucket filled with stones. He turned to a very curious congregation and said invitingly, "I invite anyone who is without sin and regrets to come pick up a handful of stones to cast it at the deceased and their family."

A Memorial Service, Funeral Service or a Cremention is never an appropriate event to air past transgressions or affect petty revenge.

Share something meaningful memories which had special meaning to your loved.

₈ What decorations or displays will you have?
It has been our experience that a trend amongst familities who have lost loved ones, that they create a repeating video or slideshow, besides the massive sprays of flower arrangements.

Momentoes and keepsakes such as personalised name tags, framed photographs, keychains, etc. have also enjoyed great appreciation amongst family and friends.

₉ Where will the interment occur?
It is common practice to transport the remains of the loved one to their final place of rest, both private and public cemetries.

Arrangements should always be made with local authorities for traffic control and the overall management and control of the procession of vehicles to the final resting place of the loved one.

Namibia has an average temperature of no less than 25°C and higher throughout the year. You take into consideration the needs of the attendees travelling to the place of interment, i.e. the availability of water and other beverages to be supplied upon request.

₁₀ What food or beverages should be served after the interment?
What food offerings you serve depends on the theme of the Memorial Service; a catered event, your loved one's favourite dishes, a "pot luck" celebration with meals contributions brought to the table by family and friends of the loved one.

Before The Decision To Cremate Is Made...

₁ Learn about the cremation options.
Contact Akasia Funeral Services for more information about the options available.

₂ Engage and consult your family about the cremation option.
We urge you strongly to talk to your family about their feelings regarding a cremation, how they feel about it and their personal preferences, if different from the cremation option..

₃ Speak to a funeral professional.
We, at Akasia Funeral Services are available to answer all your questions and concerns regarding cremations. You are welcome to contact us at all times.

₄ Document your cremation intentions in writing.
Akasia Funeral Services can provide the relevant documentation to facilitate this step. Contact us to find out more.

₅ Arrangements for the transportation of the remains of your loved one.
Akasia Funeral Services can transport the remains durectly to the crematorium.

After the decision to cremate...

₁ Consider what kind of ceremony you would like to have.
You can plan a traditional funeral folowed by the cremation or delay the ceremony until you have the time to plan a Memorial Service, or scattering ceremony.

₂ Ask for assistance from your family and friends.
When making plans for a meaningful event, encourage everyone to get involved. Ask them to gather family photos, write down short stories they´d like to share, and talk to them about location for the event. If you would like a eulogy, this is the time to ask someone special to take on the task.

₃ Select the music, prayers, or other readings.
You don´t have to have any of these things, but you should decide exactly what you and your guests will do at this event. There are endless possibilities.

₄ Contact guests well ahead of the time.
This is especially important if they will need to travel or request time off from work.

₅ Decide what will be done with the cremated remains.
Commonly, the urn is a visible focal point of a Memorial Service. Will you take it home? Will the scattering of the ashes be a part of the event? You may want to purchase keepsake urns for family members.

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Akasia Funeral Services is amply experienced in providing the grieving families and friends with meaningful experiences in order to start the healing process.

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Akasia Funeral Services provide an extensive range of burial products and services to the bereaved.

Upon the loss of loved ones, families are often bewildered by the formidable tasks to be performed.

Akasia Funeral Services facilitates the multitude of functions and tasks for bereaved families.

Attending to tasks as diverse as attending to the myriad declarations and legalities associated with the loss of a loved one, to the repatriation of remains from or to destinations near and far.

Akasia Funeral Services endeavours to provide grieving family and friends with the best possible support which will help in promoting the healing the loss.

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