{"id":62711,"date":"2026-10-14T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/our-memorial-garden-helps-us-grieve-a-cemetery-felt-too-far-away\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:01:45","slug":"our-memorial-garden-helps-us-grieve-a-cemetery-felt-too-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/our-memorial-garden-helps-us-grieve-a-cemetery-felt-too-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Our memorial garden helps us grieve – a cemetery felt too far away"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When Emma Moore’s daughter Mabel died, visiting her in a cemetery felt too far away.<\/b><\/p>\n

“I don’t like going to them and I feel like [visits] fizzle out,” she says. “At first, you’ll go regularly and then it’ll start being once a year.”<\/p>\n

Mabel was born prematurely at 27 weeks in April, her lungs had not fully developed and she lived for just two days. Emma keeps Mabel’s ashes next to a photograph of her tiny feet but she wanted a special place to feel close to her.<\/p>\n

“So we created something in the garden… [to] always be reminded of her every day,” she tells Morning Live<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The stillness of green spaces “can help us connect with memories” of loved ones, says Andy Langford, clinical director at Cruse Bereavement Support.<\/p>\n

And there are ways to create a special place of calm to remember anyone you’ve lost – even if you don’t have a garden or know much about plants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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When Emma Moore’s daughter Mabel died, visiting her in a cemetery felt too far away. “I don’t like going to them and I feel like [visits] fizzle out,” she says. “At first, you’ll go regularly and then it’ll start being once a year.” Mabel was born prematurely at 27 weeks in April, her lungs had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3329,397,611,5170,1959,2102],"class_list":["post-62711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-cemetery","tag-felt","tag-garden","tag-grieve","tag-helps","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62713,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62711\/revisions\/62713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}