Lynch's Funeral Home provides a caring,confidential,personal and professional Funeral service.We treat each Funeral as unique giving each full attention. Serving The Community In A Time Of Need
Sean Lynch's Funeral services combines a professional yet personal touch. For Seán Lynch of Castlegregory, being an undertaker is a role in life very much with a personal and predetermined path. When Séan
was just a young boy growing up he witnessed funerals and it awakened a deep spiritual connection and he vowed, even at a young age, to one day be a part of such ceremonies. Seán's vocation came through and for the last 30 years he has has been committed to providing a professional, personalised and sensitive service to his customers in Castlegregory, Camp, Brandon and the wider environs. (maintained this spiritual connection to what he considers his vocation in life by working at his Funeral Home in Castlegregory).
“When I was young something happened to me when I attended a wake and I saw a lady with rosary beads in her hands. It was such a spiritual feeling that I said to myself ‘one day I’m going to be involved in this job’ and over 30-years ago, I knew the time was right. Training is very important in my role. My service is about empathising with people at a time of great emotional need and respecting their wishes in every way, and it must come from the heart,” explained Séan. “I feel it is a privilege and an honour to be asked to be part of the funeral” he said. Seán is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and when he gets a call, everything but the task in hand is set aside as he gives the grieving family and the deceased his full attention. Every requirement and request is catered for at Lynch’s Funeral Home from flowers, coffins, headstones, funeral music, repatriation of remains and advice on cremation, plus many more important considerations. Even though Seán has a modern Funeral Home that provides such services, he remains heartened by the sensitive and intimate aspects of waking the deceased in their own homes. Funerals have changed so much over the 30 years. Cremations are increasing, non-religious funerals are becoming more common; families want to personalise and tailor every aspect of the funeral for their loved one; technology is used so that funerals are recorded or streamed live for those who cannot pay their respects in person.
“I have transformed my funeral business to meet these demands” said Seán, "as clearly demonstrated by a visit to my website (www.kerryfunderaldirectors.com)". “Where families wish to use my funeral home I may be one of the few undertakers who gives a key of the funeral home to the family of the deceased so that they can be present day or night with their loved one”. Seán welcomes families to be directly involved in the planning of the funeral from start to finish. The biggest change to the funeral business is perhaps that families wish to use their own homes for the wake. The funeral can be made more personalised when the person is waked in their own home. Family members are often more relaxed with their family member in their own home and they can express their gratitude to the constant stream of callers - offering endless cups of tea to those visitors paying their respects. “I think the house wake is so personal. To spend the last days and nights with the deceased gives a comforting feeling for the families, and even though I have a modern funeral home, I believe a house wake is a beautiful way for a family to say goodbye to loved ones” Seán said. 'It also eases the grieving process'. Seán will work with the family to set up their home for a respectful wake and covers all details even down to directional signage for the remotest of houses and has portable road lighting to ensure nobody gets lost! Seán has known the funeral business for the best part of his life and he has every intention of continuing on this vocation. Retirement is something which doesn’t even merit a thought, let alone consideration in his life. You see, for people of Seán’s generation and vintage, working is an important aspect of everyday life and is not something to retire from once one reaches a certain age, as Séan explains. His good friend Mike Neill, of the Railway Bar in Camp has echoed his own sentiments.
“At the moment I’m expanding my business rather than contemplating retirement and if you come back to me when I’m 90 I’ll still be doing it. I’m expanding my business because I love what I do. Also, given the change and trend of family home wakes I have expanded my personalised funeral service to every home in the Di**le peninsula stretching from Blennerville Bridge to Annauscaul, Di**le and in fact so far to the west of Di**le where I can see the smoke coming out of the chimneys in New York. What I do is very fulfilling and I’ve every intention of doing it long into the future,” concluded Seán.
