Author Archives: Rook

Last week I was lucky enough to get shown around Burnley Crematorium – around all of it. I say lucky, and I understand some people might not like the thought of this, but lucky because I got to see exactly what happens when those curtains close and people have said their final goodbye. And whatContinue reading “Visiting a Crematorium – Behind the Curtain.”

You’re a what? When you tell people what you do for a living, people often just nod and smile and then very quickly say: ‘Sorry, you’re a what?’ So you explain what a celebrant is and people either get very interested very quickly or feel very uncomfortable, which often comes with any conversation about death.Continue reading “Why I became a celebrant.”