Becs Buss Funeral Celebrant

23/03/2026

As a Celebrant, supporting families to create a funeral that feels like their person is the MOST important thing for me. Thank you Obitus for helping families think about what they could do, as well as supporting them to achieve it.

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21/03/2026

I still love this. Don't be worried to talk about them, because they've died. Talk about them because they LIVED xx

Love this.

21/03/2026

My latest Trustpilot 5-star review. My aim is always to give families a 'good funeral'. Mission accomplished. Thank you to the family and John Brown and Daughter Funeral Services for trusting me.

18/03/2026

Great advice. Thank you Refuge In Grief

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18/03/2026

For me, as a Funeral Celebrant, Donna Ashworth's poetry is an absolute gift. She has the most amazing way, of summing up feelings and relationships is a REAL way, that connects with people.

She has just created this beautiful illustration, and shared it, for use as a screensaver.

Love Came First, sums up the reason people experience grief and a funeral supports them to start to remember that connection. Here's the poem in full, just in case you haven't come across it before:

LOVE CAME FIRST
You don't move on after loss, but you must move with. You must shake hands with grief, welcome her in, for she lives with you now. Pull her a chair at your table and offer her comfort. She is not the monster, you first thought her to be. She is love. And she will walk with you now, stay with you now, peacefully. If you let her. And on the days when your anger is high, remember why she came, remember who she represents. Remember. Grief came to you my friend because love came first. Love came first.

- see what I mean?!? Thank you Donna.

18/03/2026

The sun shone for us, and it was a room full of love and tears, at the beautiful Cromer Crematorium this morning. Thank you to Matthew for is wonderful support, as always.

We said goodbye to a dad, who died too young. As well as his children and grandchildren, he loved heavy metal music, Cromer, owls, and taking photographs, rather than being in them.He was a life-long Liverpool FC fan, so he came into the fans’ version of the club’s anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone and left to one of his favourites – Thunderstruck by ACDC.

Thank you too, to Joseph from Ivan Fisher Independent Funeral Homes – a pleasure to work with you, as always.

18/03/2026

Some lovely feedback from one of my latest funerals. Thank you John Brown and Daughter Funeral Services - between us, we did 'em proud. I love this job 😊

17/03/2026

Yesterday, I was at St Faiths Crematorium, working with the lovely Ellamay, from John Brown and Daughter Funeral Services, to support a family, to say goodbye to their much-loved sister, wife and mother.

She was known for her smile, as well as her loving and caring personality. She was a brilliant listener (Olympic gold medal level, as her husband described it) and would often have heard people’s complete life story, within ten minutes of meeting them.

She loved Lake Garda, in Italy, and we had a beautiful cross stitch cushion, that she made, of a lake-side view, on her coffin. She liked her television and music LOUD and despite, as her daughter described it “she couldn’t sing, but did it anyway” she would often be heard singing along to her favourite tunes, at the top of her voice. One of her favourites was Keep Hauling by the Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends, which accompanied us, as we left the chapel.

Her relationship with her husband and daughter was a particularly close one, hence the quote “crying is just the way our eyes speak, when our mouth can't explain how broken our heart is” and the impact she had on those who knew her, was summed up by Helen Lowrie Marshall’s beautiful poem, Afterglow.

16/03/2026

I can't tell you how much I love this, even if it meant that I started my day in tears 🥹 - in a good way.

Please don't wait from someone like me, to be telling their story, when they can't hear it. Tell them. Tell them now. Thank you Paths To Go

Now I'm off to think about who I want to tell and what I want to say...

15/03/2026

Some lovely feedback, from the Mother's Day Memorial Service I lead at St Faiths Crematorium yesterday. Particular thanks to David, Dom and the team, for making it possible and inviting me to be part of it.

I particularly loved seeing the photos of all the mums (here's mine) and hearing people's memories of them.

15/03/2026

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to lead the Mother's Day Memorial Service at St Faiths Crematorium. It was an event full of love and memories and - as you'll see from some of the comments- we managed to balance tears with smiles.

To paraphrase Jesse Pedigo "Whilst we may not have got to spend the rest of our lives with her; She got to spend the rest of her life with us - and there is beauty in that". I wish you a peaceful Sunday.🥰