The book contains spiritual and practical aids for the organization of prayer times and services for bereavement. It includes prayers in the house of mourning, prayers at the blessing, alternative laws, and meditative insertions at the funeral wreath, funeral service, and burial. There are also funeral services for a deceased child, biblical readings, meditation texts, intercessions, prayers of blessing, and funeral addresses for various situations, such as the death of a child, a young person, an old person, an alcoholic, or death by suicide. Newly included are design elements for animal burials. The sensitively formulated prayers and thoughts reflect the author's extensive pastoral and family therapy experience in dealing with mourning individuals.