Wagga's funeral homes will see a return to slightly bigger services from this week as coronavirus restrictions ease.
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Funerals will now be able to accommodate 20 people at an indoor service and 30 at an outdoor one after a "very challenging" six weeks where services were limited to just 10 people, including the priest or celebrant.
Abelia Lady Funerals' Patricia Butler is one local director who has overhauled her services dramatically to comply with strict social distancing restrictions.
Ms Butler welcomed the new limit on guests as "a good concession" but said she was concerned about grieving people not being allowed to embrace one another.
"It's challenging. People can have a chat but they can't touch or shake hands. I think that's also equally important ... you automatically want to shake their hand. It's just ingrained in us," she said.
"Some people love and need that physical contact and some people don't. It's something you pick up with experience."
Ms Butler said the funeral industry had embraced live-streaming technology, which she expected to stick around well after the coronavirus pandemic.
Wagga funeral director Daniel Woods has overseen about 25 services since the restrictions came into effect.
"We've been streaming a lot of services, recording services. That change in technology has given people the opportunity to feel as if they're there at the funeral," Mr Woods said.
Live-streaming, he said, had opened up funeral services to bereaved people who might be scattered around the world.
"And probably [it's] given the opportunity for people that wouldn't normally attend ... families are all over Australia and the world and they've been able to watch the service."
Alan Harris McDonald director Joshua Paul said he had seen some "really beautiful services for some incredible people" in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions.
In addition to live-streaming services, his funeral home has started using an app which allows people to have "basically the whole service in the palm of their hands".
"People have really embraced the technology ... it's allowed us to still offer services that are befitting of their loved one's memory," Mr Paul said.
"Funerals I believe may change in some way for a long time, if not forever."