One of my colleagues died recently, unexpectedly. She was very young (30) and we are all a bit devastated tbh. We (her colleagues) are mostly British / Irish / US / Austrlians but we all live outside the UK. Her actual funeral will be held back in her home country, so none of us can attend. We don't think there will be a formal memorial service here in the country we live in, so we'd like to organise something for the 25-ish of us that knew and loved and miss her.
Within our workplace, I often take on the role of organising events, get-togethers etc. I want to contribute here, but I'm not very sure what to do. I've never actually been to the funeral of a young person.
Do any of you have suggestions of how or what we should organise? I think we want something where we can talk / cry / grieve together, and also have a bit of food and drink. In the absence of any of her family members, how do we do the 'memorial' bit? all ideas gratefully received.