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  • planning ahead
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      • what happens if you do not have a will
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    • when care at home is not possible
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  • what to do first when someone dies
    • at hospital
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      • if specialist cleaning services are needed
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    • letting people know
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    • check for important paperwork
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    • what if you are not the actual next of kin?
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      • registering the death and arranging the funeral
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  • medical certificates, the coroner and post mortem examinations
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  • registering a death and tell us once
    • who can register
    • what you need to take with you
    • what the registrar will give you
    • tell us once
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  • what else needs to be done after a death
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  • the funeral
    • finding a funeral director
      • finding a funeral director
    • arranging the funeral yourself
    • paying for the funeral
      • financial assistance
      • fees and charges
    • what happens at the funeral
      • cremation
      • burial
      • green funerals
    • the funeral ceremony arrangements
      • looking after the person who has died
      • what type of ceremony is appropriate?
      • tribute or eulogy
      • when to have the funeral
      • looking after the mourners' needs
    • documents needed when arranging a funeral
      • forms for a burial
      • forms for a cremation
    • repatriation for a funeral overseas
    • taking children to funerals
    • making arrangements after the funeral
      • acknowledgements
      • distributing the ashes
      • grave tending
    • arranging a memorial
      • memorial at a cemetery
      • memorial at a crematorium
      • online memorials
  • probate and other legal procedures
    • deciding how to do probate
      • use a probate specialist
      • do probate yourself
      • find and use a solicitor
      • use a bank
    • understanding the probate process
    • small estates
    • insolvent estates
    • confirmation in scotland
      • if there is a will
      • if there is no will
      • small estates
    • probate in northern ireland
    • probate on the isle of man
    • useful contacts
  • money and tax issues
    • financial support for those left behind
    • tax
  • coping afterwards
    • the effect of grief
    • sources of support
    • helping children
    • when a baby or child has died
    • living on your own
    • becoming a carer or arranging care
  • how can i help a bereaved person?
  • unanswered questions and complaints
  • useful contacts
  • birmingham contacts
    • national bereavement care conference
  • who's who after a death
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