Dying in Cairns

An up-to-date listing of death-related services in Cairns and Far North Queensland

End of Life/Death Support Services

Ladybird Care Foundation

A network of bereaved parents providing mentoring to each other to navigate the grief associated with losing a child.

Living Bridge Community Doulas

Provides non-medical support, options and education to assist the dying and those around them to make informed end-of-life decisions.

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StandBy Support after Suicide

Suicide postvention program to help people and communities bereaved and impacted by suicide. Free face-to-face or telephone support accessible 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.

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Voluntary Assisted Dying

Queensland Government has legislated to provide Voluntary Assisted Dying under strict eligibility criteria.

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Financial Support

AFRM Claims Advocacy

Fee for service assistance to make life insurance claims through policies attached to your loved one's superannuation fund.

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Funeral Assistance Scheme

Family and friends can apply to the Coroners Court of Queensland for a simple burial/cremation or repatriation to country by the Government Undertaker when there is not enough money for a funeral.

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Funeral and Memorial Suppliers

Angel Air Australia

Drone ash scattering in the Cairns surrounds, Tablelands and Port Douglas regions.
Email: bookings@AngelAirAustralia.com.au

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Simplicity Funerals

Funeral home and chapel in Westcourt, serving surrounding areas in tropical north Queensland. Previously trading as Burkin Svendsens Funerals.

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Cairns Crematorium

Family owned business on Foster Road, Mount Sheridan, featuring a crematorium, funeral home, chapel and memorial gardens on site.

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Cairns Funeral Directors

Providing funeral, burial, or memorial services. Located in Manoora including a chapel that can accommodate small, intimate gatherings or larger groups of up to 300.

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Cairns Regional Council

Managing cemeteries at Martyn Street, Forest View (Mt Sheridan), Gordonvale and Babinda. Lawn plaque, monumental, mausoleums and columbarium walls. Website also used to search existing graves.

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Community Funerals

Providing funeral directors services to Atherton, Cairns (Chapel at Smithfield), Mareeba, Mossman & Port Douglas and surrounding districts.

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Gori Marble & Granite

Cairns, family-owned stonemason designing and manufacturing plaques, headstones, grave vaults and memorials.

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Heritage Brady Funeral Directors

Established in 1981, local family-owned and operated funeral home located in Gordonvale.

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Straight Cremations

Provides dignified, professional funeral and cremation services for clients with limited budgets. Straight Cremations use the local family-owned Cairns Crematorium for the cremation.

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