Truly Holistic Continuity of Care

More than a shopfront, our bricks and mortar funeral home guarantees your person is safely in our hands only and you can take all the time you need for every important choice.

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More than a business, with over 20 years experience, our highly sought after team of end of life professionals are the voices you will speak with right from first contact.
From pre-planning or diagnosis, through end of life and bereavement, we are with you all the way.

Helping you get your life rites, right.

Celebrate and farewell your loved ones in a space that is sensitive to your needs whether it’s at our Boutique Funeral Home or somewhere special to you.

Life Rites Funerals is located in Hurstville, South Sydney in our Boutique Funeral Home. We offer a complete range of services in a warm and welcoming space meaning all care is conducted on-site.

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Services We Offer

  • Life Rites doulas Sarah, Kim and Victoria in discussion.

    End-of-Life Doula Services

    At Life Rites our Doula Team offer practical and emotional support to people living with a life-changing or terminal illness. 

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  • Funeral Direction

    We work with a wide-range of people and offer a wide-range of services to help you make the best and most appropriate choices for you and for all involved.

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  • Home Vigils and Cool Plates

    Want to continue the care of your loved one at home? We can help you.

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  • Guidance & Counselling

    We offer support services that provide sensitive guidance every step of the way.

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  • Training and Workshops

    Life Rites offers a series of one and two days workshops and training on death, dying and funeral rites. Sign up to our newsletter to stay updated.

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  • Jude and Skye from Life Rites who hold our monthly Grief Circle, looking ready and happy to engage with you.

    Public Programs and Community Events

    Life Rites hosts and takes part in many events each year such as monthly Grief Circles for our funeral clients, film nights, open days, memorial picnics and artistic offerings. Click below to find out more…

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The Life Rites Difference

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Today, World AIDS Day, is one that we at Life Rites acknowledge and honour. In the 90's as part of Sydney's World AIDS Day Remembrance, the trees in Hyde Park were wrapped with red fabric, and we hold these threads of relationships and love for all w
Thank you to all who attended the 2024 @festivalofdeathanddying - artists, presenters, participants, and helpers. It was a Beauty! 💫 Deep in our DNA @liferitesfunerals is community advocacy, death literacy, creativity, and support - ensuring we can
What a powerful and generative Trans Day of Remembrance ceremony at @bradfieldsc yesterday. Our mortality doula, celebrant, and holistic funeral director @sarahthepsychic led a heartfelt vigil that brought the community together in remembrance, care
Coming together to explore life, death, and community care at DeathFest 2024 🌿💀🧡 This weekend at the @festivalofdeathanddying, the Life Rites team joins in spaces of deep listening and sharing. Through workshops, panels, and conversations, we'll
🍂 The Sydney Festival of Death and Dying opens its doors this weekend (16-17 November), inviting us into meaningful conversations about death and dying. Join us at the Drill Hall, Darling Point (Eora land) for three Life Rites led workshops explor
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2025 End of Year Wrap
2025 End of Year Wrap
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Navigating Grief and Loss During the Holidays
Navigating Grief and Loss During the Holidays
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What It Means to Care for Our Dead
What It Means to Care for Our Dead

After the intensity and shock that accompanies most deaths, when someone arrives at our mortuary, there is a kind of quiet that settles in. A silence full of presence. In which another form of care begins. At Life Rites, mortuary  care does not happen somewhere out of sight or behind closed doors in another part of Sydney. It happens right here, in the same building where families sit with us to share stories, make arrangements, and begin to navigate their loss.

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Holistic Continuity of Care

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118 Durham Street,
Hurstville, New South Wales, 2220 Bidjigal Land

0421200250

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Life Rites pays our respects to all Indigenous people. To elders, past and present. To the land, still unceded, on which we live, love, mourn, heal, work and create. Proudly queer-informed, Life Rites welcomes all abilities, bodies, cultures, genders, identities, languages and sexualities.

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