Part 2: Informed Funeral Choices and Planning Your Own Funeral

Funeral choices: Cremation (including direct cremation), natural burial and alternative and future options

Speakers: Natural burial ground managers explain natural burials.

Separating the funeral from the celebration of life.

Speaker: Community funeral expert on family-led funerals (funerals at home), Lyn Baylis, guides us through how to arrange a funeral with minimal support of a funeral director, including alternatives to coffins.

Making your complete wish list : Your ‘green envelope’.

Part 1: Facing Death and What To Do When Someone Dies

Introducing a new and modern approach to funerals, including what and who you might need at the end of your life. And especially what you don’t need!

Speaker: Death and dying expert, Katie Costello (soul midwife and death doula) will take us through what choices you have when you are facing death and what happens at the time of death.

What to do when someone dies.

Speaker: Progressive funeral director, Tora Colville from The Modern Funeral, will explore the role of a funeral director and how they might help you in a simple and honest way.

You will start your plan for your end of life wishes.