About Louise Winter
Louise Winter by Melissa Rodrigues Photography
At 25, Louise had never been to a funeral. By 30, she’d been to over 300.
Louise Winter is the co-director of Life. Death. Whatever. - an award-winning festival and community that exists to change the dialogue around death and dying - and a funeral director and the founder of Poetic Endings, a modern funeral service based in Forest Hill in London. Her work is founded on the belief that a good funeral can be profound and transformational in helping to live after someone has died.
Louise regularly writes about her work and has been featured in publications around the world, including Vice, the BBC, Stylist, the Telegraph, the Evening Standard and the Guardian. In October 2017, she did a TEDx talk at King’s College London inspired by the tattoo on her ex boyfriend’s arm. In 2017, Louise and Anna won a Death Oscar, a Good Funeral Award, for their groundbreaking work.
Louise was described by the Good Funeral Guide as "possibly one of the most creative and insightful people involved with funerals anywhere in the world”.
She loves fashion, food and poetry and lives in London with her British Shorthair cat, Bella.
Louise’s first book, We All Know How This Ends, written with end-of-life doula Anna Lyons, will be published by Green Tree (Bloomsbury) in March 2021.
Watch Louise’s TEDx talk
Watch Louise's TEDx talk at Kings College London, where she talks about her approach to modern funeral directing.
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