St. Mary's Parish Community

What to do when someone dies?

However much we are expecting it, death is always a shock. When death is unexpected, or the person is very young, it can be overwhelmingly painful.

Steps to take when someone close is dying or has recently died.

• Call a priest

• Sacrament for the sick

• Confession, Anointing and Holy Communion

• Pray with the person

• What if someone dies suddenly?

• What if the dying person is not Catholic?

• Arranging the funeral

• What is important?

• Our death is linked to our baptism

• Different forms of a funeral

• Involving family and relatives

• The final journey to heaven

• Burial or cremation

• How to cope afterwards