Suzanne Hunton, Funeral Celebrant

28/08/2025

Doing a ceremony *slightly* further afield this morning, but only by 250 miles or so... Drove down last night, slept in my trusty Constance the Camper, and here I am all ready to go!

27/02/2025

Pink hair, don't care... All tamed, sprayed and pinned so it doesn't decide to run wild during a service!

30/01/2025

The other side of preparation for a ceremony - trying to get my fringe to behave 🤣 Straighteners have been applied, but it still needs half-an-hour under a beanie hat 😜 I just need to remember to take it off...

22/01/2025

First funeral of 2025, today. There's something gentle and soft about quiet, misty January days, and it was lovely to be trusted with the ceremony for a much-loved 90-year-old gentleman. I'm so very glad I chose this as a career path 💜

13/11/2024

Next week I'll be attending my second-ever Death Café; there's definitely something about this season that sends us inward, and it feels good to have somewhere to focus all that introspection!

21/10/2024

In the pink to attend a 'Death Café' at a local library this morning (headband worn on the journey to get my errant fringe to behave...). It's a great drop-in held once a month to allow people to get together and discuss all things deathly, and to demystify the topic.
Although it's open to everyone, it was an all-women gathering, reminding me that it's always pretty much been women working behind the scenes at the gateways to both life and death. 🖤💀🖤

16/10/2024

Autumn vibes. It's important to remember that melancholy and introspection are part of our make-up, and we sometimes need to listen carefully to receive their strange but vital gift 🧡🖤🧡

04/10/2024

This is a really useful and interesting article. I strongly believe that we humans need ritual at the crossing points of life; birth, marriage (or partnership), death. We need a point in time when we come together, support each other, mark an important and powerful moment in time. It lets us reflect, take a breath, and begin to acknowledge the shift that has occurred in our life, and there's a beauty in any ritual that is done in a meaningful and personal way. It's important that we're informed about the choices that we make, and have agency in whatever happens to us and our loved ones.

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02/10/2024

Having a bit of a 'woman down' couple of days, so I'm using the time to reach out to new funeral directors. Weirdly enough, cold-calling is about 132% more terrifying for me than standing in front of a packed congregation and leading a full funeral service! Still, it was a worthwhile enterprise; four calls made, three appointments arranged for tomorrow off the back of them.
I am blessed to be mentored by my life coach and expert in all matters funereal, Kylo Fraser McGowan. His patented technique involves lying across my knee and sending good vibes and confidence; it's highly effective, and he'd like you to know that he's *not* asleep when he does it, he's just concentrating. Hard...

25/09/2024

The forecast said rain; instead we got that beautiful golden autumn light and colours to allow the family to say goodbye. It was a small gathering, but the love was palpable.

24/09/2024

I have a service tomorrow morning for a gentleman who was in his 90s when he died. Writing his eulogy against the backdrop of so much change was both lovely and humbling; I feel he was the gentlest of men through it all.
I've had the luxury of time with this one, and although I've had the service written for about a week I've just revisited it tonight to mark up my reading copy, so it's fresh in my mind.

03/09/2024

This was the stand at the National Funeral Exhibition promoting 'Ashes into Space' - basically sending your cremains up to a height of 100,000 feet then automatically releasing them. Whilst being filmed, of course.

All yours for about £4,000; what are your thoughts?