Peace Funerals

Gleadless Mount
Sheffield
S12 2LN
South Yorkshire

0114 253 0505

info@peacefunerals.co.uk
http://www.peacefunerals.co.uk/

Affiliation: Independent business

Peace Funerals is a Natural Death Centre recommended funeral director.

A member of The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF).

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Peace Funerals offers a basic funeral option costing £945 plus disbursements.

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"Thank you"

Reviewed by Libbykins on Tuesday 29 September 2015

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My husband died at the end of August and although he'd made a lot of decisons about his funeral he hadn't actually decided or chosen a particular funeral director.

Having been let down by the first people I contacted- he died on the bank holiday & the promised phone call never materialised, I was delighted by the caring yet professional manner which Stephen and his team handled everything.

Having cared for my husband through his all his cancer journey I wanted to do one last thing and that was to wash and dress him.

With my very good friend and Stephen we made what may have been a traumatic and emotional time into a very positive memory and I was able to get him looking just right in the beautiful wool coffin that was just right.

The funeral itself was also very well managed to exactly how both my husband and I had planned.

I have nothing but praise and admiration for all at Peace Funerals.

Libbykins would recommend Peace Funerals to friends.

"Peter's funeral"

Reviewed by Gbarrass on Tuesday 14 May 2013

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Gavin made our funeral a pleasant experience which we will all remember.We had little idea how to go about a burial at home but it was soon sorted out for us and encouraged to make it our personal evening. He even made the sun shine. Many thanks from all our family

Gbarrass would recommend Peace Funerals to friends.

"Home burial with help from Peace Funerals"

Reviewed by Dave on Tuesday 30 April 2013

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My wife's cancer progressed very fast and gave me little or no chance to discuss funeral arrangements with her. The one thing she was able to communicate was a request for a carpet of crocuses above her – which I took to mean that burial was not something which she was uncomfortable about.

A few days before she died (on March 20th 2013) I started thinking about it and discussing options with our kids and wider family. By this time she was mainly asleep and slipping away steadily. I quickly found a promising looking funeral directors near where we live – Peace Funerals in Sheffield – I liked the tone of their website. We briefly explored woodland burial at a nearby village cemetery and Peace Funeral’s own burial ground near Sheffield but then it dawned on us that we could bury her on our own land – a 3-acre smallholding in the Peak District. A friend lent us the Natural Death Centre’s Handbook and our minds were quickly made up.

Peace Funerals’ flexibility and reassurance was invaluable. What initially appeared to be complicated local authority “rules” for such a burial no longer seemed to pose a problem. Neighbours, to my slight surprise, were fully supportive. My wife was in her woven bamboo coffin in the house and was visited by family and close friends to say their good-byes. We decorated the coffin lid with flowers including white poppies – an emblem of peace. The coffin lid was secured. About 150-200 people gathered outside our house in wellies and woolly hats against the snow. Choral music was played over a PA system from an upstairs window. Peace Funerals introduced us to an excellent non-religious celebrant who read the tribute and led other aspects of the funeral. We processed up the track with family and neighbours bearing the coffin having had some brief instruction from Stephen from Peace Funerals who quietly supervised and supported in the background (in jeans and wellies as requested). A flautist played as we walked. We got to the graveside where the Gaelic Blessing was read. Our singing neighbours sang Here is My Home by Si Khan. The coffin was lowered. Flowers were laid. 

Many letters and e-mails subsequently arrived saying that it was a special day – simple, spiritual, moving and fitting. I am very very grateful to Peace Funerals for making it happen for us.

Her grave is now planted up with crocuses and other spring bulbs.

Dave would recommend Peace Funerals to friends.