Abi works as a lawyer, specialising in end of life planning and grief.

Sally’s mum was buried in a willow coffin in an orchard with just close family members in attendance.

Jo is a new funeral celebrant in South East London.

Hannah works as a funeral celebrant in London.

Adele is an experienced Humanist funeral celebrant working in the East of England and throughout the UK.

Hannah works as a funeral celebrant in London.

Shena is a funeral celebrant and works in north west England.

Lucy is a forward-thinking funeral director who owns and runs a funeral home in Stourbridge, West Midlands.

Amy is the owner of the New York City-based firm Fitting Tribute Funeral Services.

Awen is a pagan priest based in Birmingham who offers ceremony and ritual to help navigate the big changes of life, particularly around birth and death. 

Rosie is a progressive funeral directer with eighteen years experience in the world of funerals. She is particularly interested in how we create meaningful ritual when organised religion is less relevant to many communities.

Annika Caswell is a Specialist Bodycare Artist who works for a modern funeral director in London, Poetic Endings.

Holly Clarke is a holistic funeral director and the founder of Holly’s Funerals. She’s also training to be an end-of-life doula.

Alexandra Kathryn Mosca has worked as a funeral director in New York City for 35 years. She’s also the author of several books about funerals.

Jo Loveridge is a funeral director and the owner of Albany Funerals in Kent. Concerned by how impersonal many funerals were and how driven by money many Funeral Directors were,  Jo was determined that families and individuals going through the hardest of times would have a funeral that was both personal and affordable.

Kate Tym and Kate Dyer are the founders of Coffin Club, a safe space to talk about death and plan your perfect send-off.

Richard Sprenger recently made a short documentary about funeral poverty - capturing just how difficult bereavement can be, when you simply don't have the money to pay for a burial. 

Fergus Wessel runs Stoneletters Studio, which specialises in fine, hand-carved headstones.  He’s passionate about headstones, and campaigns to spread awareness of the comfort and healing that a memorial can bring to those who are bereaved.

Carol Smillie (now Knight) qualified as a Humanist Celebrant in 2018 after over 25 years in television. She now conducts non religious funerals, naming and legal wedding ceremonies with the charity Humanist Society Scotland. Humanist ceremonies are now the number one choice across Scotland for both weddings and funerals.

Lucy Coulbert is a funeral director and the managing director of the Individual Funeral Company in Oxford, an independent, award-winning family funeral directors specialising in traditional and bespoke funerals.

Rosalie Kuyvenhoven is a celebrant and a Death Cafe host. She grew up in the Netherlands, but now lives in London with her husband and two children.

Sarah Jones is a funeral director and the founder of Full Circle Funerals, an award winning funeral home in Leeds. She believes ardently that we would all benefit from speaking about death and dying more openly so that we are better able to support ourselves and our loved ones in life and death.

Fran is a former award winning funeral director with many years experience of both funeral directing and managing natural burial grounds. Fran is now CEO of the Good Funeral Guide.

Toby Angel is the founder of Sacred Stones, a company dedicated to creating meaningful final resting places for cremation ashes, inspired by the ancient burial mounds of our prehistoric ancestors.

Poppy’s Funerals is a funeral home in London.