A Gentle Touch Funerals is an 100% Australian owned, family operated business based on the Gold Coast. We specialise in traditional Maori and Polynesian funerals, and will take care of all your arrangement needs, allowing you to grieve in your own time. If you have recently lost a loved one, we would like to take this opportunity to sympathise with your loss. A Gentle Touch Funerals is a close knit family business, which has helped many families through their loss of loved ones by providing exceptional levels of care and support. We offer unique care in tailoring funeral services that are appropriate, meaningful, dignified and affordable—from the traditional to the contemporary. Our funeral arrangement services include family and church liaison, burials and repatriation. We have a large urn range and offer personalised coffin designs. A Rolls Royce hearse is also available, so that your loved one can be laid to rest in style. We cater to many different customs and special requests, including culturally appropriate services for the Polynesian community through our Pacific Island Family Funerals division. We also provide support and comfort to the local community, through our Mudgeeraba Funerals division. Forward planning helps to lift many pressures off family while ensuring your wishes are honoured. At A Gentle Touch Funerals we provide prearranged funeral services—talk to us for more information. At A Gentle Touch Funerals our goal is to provide the very best of care for both the family and the departed family member. We offer a flexible approach to funeral planning, and compassion and understanding in gently guiding you and your family through the process of arranging a beautiful service for your loved one. Our business is also accredited with the Australian Funeral Directors Association.

After a rapid decline following a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2021, Mum took the reins in planning her last few months. She decided on a living wake, she called a Soirée. An afternoon of food a drinks with her extended family followed by an old fashioned slide show. This was an opportunity to share her life and say goodbye. When it came to her funeral, Mum didn't want the bells and certainly not the whistles. Mum always went on about funerals being over the top and wanting us kids to draw on a simple box and cover it in lavender. Like many of us, I didn't think it was possible and while there were some obstacles when the time came, we made it happen. It was those obstacles that drew me to start Rest. I believe that a cheap funeral doesn't have to be 'cheap'. While my family saved a lot of money on Mums funeral, we spent a lot of time and energy making it what she wanted. Mum, just like everyone, was her own self. A unique person that had to be celebrated in a unique way. We are all about what you can do, not what you can't. Our aim at Rest is to give regional people access to the funeral they want. Whether it is a family led funeral at home with the support you need to vigil or a simple cremation, allowing them to - like our mum - have a memorial that suits them, we can help.