Louise Winter - Funeral Director & Founder of Poetic Endings.  She was a funeral celebrant before she decided to become a funeral director and launch the funeral service she believes needs to exist.

Before becoming a funeral director, Louise was the editor of the Good Funeral Guide. She's also the director of Life. Death. Whatever. An award festival and community that exists to change the dialogue around death and dying.  In 2017, Louise won a Death Oscar at the Good Funeral Awards.  She loves food, fashion, poetry and just about everything else.

Poetic Endings is founded on the belief that a good funeral can be profound and transformational in helping to accept and acknowledge that someone has died. Facing death can be an overwhelming, traumatic and confusing time.

Direct Cremation

When a loved one dies, your world can fall apart. And the complexity and strain of funeral arrangements, as well as the financial burden, can add to your distress.

A direct cremation separates the cremation from any kind of attended funeral service. This means there is no rush to arrange a traditional funeral service.

The unattended cremation usually takes place within 2 weeks and the ashes can be delivered shortly afterwards. Then, if you choose, you could host a memorial service to celebrate your loved one's life.

Direct cremations have been growing in popularity as people look for a more affordable and modern way of making funeral arrangements.

In this episode, we chat with Steven Cains from DirectCremation.co.uk.

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Qeepr - Ensuring A Loved One's Legacy Lives On(line) Forever.

The Qeepr Team has created an interactive story-telling platform that allows you to fill in the “dash” of your life or a loved one with memories, messages, photos, smiles and laughter. You now have the ability to become a Qeepr to preserve and share the legacy of your predecessors. Qeepr is a social media site dedicated to memorialising the lives of the departed with the aid of modern technology.

Bounce Works have created an interactive game to help families cope with life limiting illness, death and grief. Apart of Me is a safe virtual space that helps families find their way through grief. Apart of Me is based on the research that shows talking with children openly and honestly but in an age-sensitive way about death and dying can prevent them from developing entrenched, complex feelings around their loss. Apart of Me helps families by developing emotional literacy and wisdom around death. It helps by curating a secure digital memory box of your loved one. Also, it helps by finding and connecting with other people in similar situations, a way to not feel alone in a difficult situation. In its prototype form, Apart of Me is launching its next phase through an IndieGoGo launch.