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I actually saw a post to our town's community page last night that the big local funeral home holds a once a month meeting in different topics to help people discuss these matters.
The coming event is a tour of the crematory where you can see the equipment, what can be done with the cremains, and a Q and A to determine if that is something you'd want for yourself.
A previous one was green burials, which I'm really bummed that I missed!
One person commented it was morbid, but the two from the funeral home said the last crematory tour had around 100 show up.
If you search "death conversations" or "death cafe" near you, you may be able to find something similar.
The funeral home that handled my relative's death runs regular grief counseling sessions. They mailed me reminders about them near holidays. I didn't go, but I appreciate the service.
That sounds like it could help people out. I imagine sometimes you might not know you need to talk to someone unless somebody brings to the idea.
That reminds me that I remember different companies that do gifts (I think I got emails from ProFlowers, for instance) that they send emails a month or so out from holidays like Mother's/Father's Day to click anything on the email so you don't get those promos.
I wish everyone could do the same. The dang veterinarian that we used years ago kept sending me annual checkups for years after they had to put a few of my pets down. That always really bummed me out, and that's not a person...
We also got the Nestle baby formula sample thing in the mail after my ex's miscarriage. That one was not very appreciated either.
I feel I got on a tangent, but once I started replying I got reminded of less sensitive companies...