Funerals & Farewells
Celebration of Life & Memorial Ceremonies on the Sunshine Coast
If you want to arrange a funeral, a burial, or a direct cremation, you may now be looking for someone to help you create a meaningful way to say goodbye. In your own time, your own location, and your own words. You don’t need a funeral director to plan a beautiful farewell. That’s exactly where I come in.
As an independent celebrant, I work directly with families across the Sunshine Coast to design bespoke celebration-of-life ceremonies, memorials, and eco-conscious farewells; whether that’s weeks after a direct cremation, or as a stand-alone gathering with no formal funeral at all.
I support families in Maleny, Montville, Palmwoods, the Nambour district and across the Sunshine Coast Hinterland and coast. You can contact me directly to discuss a funeral, memorial or celebration-of-life ceremony.
A life is worth celebrating. And a memorial is just one of the ways we say farewell to someone we love.
Preparing the ritual of farewell may seem like a daunting task. As an experienced funeral celebrant, I am here to help guide you in finding the most fitting way to create a funeral or farewell ceremony, in a way that resonates with you.
Ritual or ceremony help us all to know, honour and let go of someone dear. And there is absolutely no such thing as one size fits all. There are many ways to create the occasion that truly reflects and honours who the departed was, and who you are now. Let’s work with the elements that you feel fit.
Funeral celebrant
Offering a nurturing and gentle experience, I have been helping families on the Sunshine Coast and beyond to find a fulfilling way to say farewell for many years with custom ceremonies of life.
It began when I had to step up to farewell a dear friend. After that I knew I could help families anywhere to prepare and fulfil a fitting farewell.
From helping you to say just what you want to say or hear said, to creating special ritual moments that don’t even need words, we can work together to create the right ceremony for you and your departed loved one. For a very affordable, all inclusive fee I would love to support you in getting things organised.
Funeral ceremony
Be it a farewell, a ceremony of life, a funeral or a memorial, I can help take the stress out of planning the occasion; coordinating readers and speakers, helping with creating the order of the day, and assisting with eulogies.
When you are planning to farewell someone you love, you want someone who can nurture and support you along the way.
Kari’s funeral service includes:
- Consultation with families, friends, community and others
- Writing a fitting service and supplying an order of service
- Coordination of the family’s wishes, rituals and speakers
- Cues for music and slide shows
- Assistance with reading selection
- Assistance with writing of a eulogy
- Advice on what to include
- Liaison with funeral directors and other services
- Green funerals, eco funerals, sustainable solutions
Do I need a funeral director to book you?
No. If you’ve already arranged a direct cremation (or don’t want a traditional funeral service at all), you can book me directly for a memorial or celebration-of-life ceremony — no funeral home involved.
How soon can we arrange something?
I understand these ceremonies are often planned quickly, or sometimes weeks later once a family has had time to prepare. I keep flexibility in my calendar for exactly this reason. Get in touch and we’ll find
a time that works.
Eco funerals
More and more people are curious about sustainable options when it comes to funerals. Ideas such as Eco Funerals and Eco Burials. With the rise of eco cemeteries in Australia, and the establishment of a Natural Death Centre in Byron Bay, people are keen to know if these options are available for Sunshine Coast funerals. The short answer is mostly yes. Things are changing and new ways are becoming available all the time
Eco Funerals, Green Funerals and Natural Burials are now an option on the Sunshine Coast.
Enquire with me to find out what range of options might be available today for your funeral service needs.
Affordable Options
Are you seeking affordable options? How about an alternative to booking a funeral celebrant. If you would prefer to run things yourself, then I offer an assistance service charged by the hour. Imagine meeting with me and having a chat around the kitchen table with family, in which we decide on the elements, and delegate the tasks to family. My assistance helps guide you towards running the service yourselves. I may not even have to turn up to the farewell if you have enouh support to run things yourselves.
What they had to say…
“Kari, you did such a wonderful service yesterday, thank you. Your warmth, energy, generosity, and sincerity were really appreciated – I cannot find the words to fully express the amazing job you did in helping us to pull together and deliver a service that was so reflective of our Helen. You were brilliant.”
– Geoff
“Kari, I just wanted to thank you for being just wonderful at our girl’s celebration of life. We really appreciated the way you handled the whole event and the way her orphaned young daughter responded to you and helped make it special.
I realise it could be very difficult doing a service for a suicide but you handled it so well with love and compassion.. So many people commented on how fitting it was.”
– Judy
“I just wanted to say an oceanic thank you for skilfully creating a cohesive service for Steve…he really would have loved the fact that you wore your red leather jacket in honour of him. I wanted to say also that the quote you offered of Rumi’s was a beautifully poetic, succinct and incredibly accurate way to portray his challenges and his beautifully divine spirit. I’ll quote Tina Turner, “you’re simply the best at what you do”, and we were very fortunate to have found you, Kari.”
– Steve’s sister