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Contemporary Role of sympathy flowers

heartWhether you are sending funeral flowers for a friend or need sympathy flower arrangements delivered, your florist will help you along with your funeral director in making floral selections that help celebrate the life of your loved one and create an atmosphere that is comforting and aesthetically pleasing to you and your family.

Contemporary Role of Flowers

Flowers create a background of warmth and beauty, which adds to the dignity and consolation of the funeral service. Following the service, the bereaved are left with an indelible impression, or “memory picture” of the funeral. The more comforting the memory picture, the more easily it is recalled by the bereaved and the more vivid is the reinforcement of the reality of loss. Flowers do not wither and die in the mind of the bereaved; they are recalled time and again as indelible memories. Conversely, those who have attended service where there were no flowers, have expressed the feeling that something was missing, that the funeral was depressing.

Flowers also have a spiritual significance.  Read more here