The White Chair, funeral celebrants

08/11/2021

Instead of paying a fee for writing a basic will or pair of basic mirror wills, the solicitor will invite you to make a voluntary donation to Will Aid. Suggested voluntary donations are £95 for a basic Will, or £150 for a pair of basic mirror Wills.

05/11/2021

Death Café Tottenham presents
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

How have the last eighteen months been
for you?
Come and talk about it over tea and cake
in the lovely Vintage Tea-room
at T on the Green
(the cafe in Bruce Castle Park, Tottenham)
Sunday 7 November
2.30 – 4.30

Entry free, but donations welcome
Booking essential: message us here

11/03/2021

A word of warning about pre-paid funeral plans.

Pre-paid funeral plans aren’t always what they seem but there are alternatives. Here’s how to avoid being exploited

22/02/2021

‘I’ve deliberated many times about discussing grief in a food column – you’re possibly here to read about new ways with couscous – yet the two topics are more linked than one might imagine’

26/01/2021

We can be compost!

After five years of research and development, Recompose, the company founded by Seattle resident Katrina Spade that gives people the option of choosing natural organic reduction — otherwise known as human composting — as an alternative to burials and cremation,...

07/01/2021

Jane Morgan and I on our Coffin Club

Jane Morgan and Ruth Valentine, funeral celebrants who co-founded Coffin Club North London, talk funeral poverty, feminism and learning to live with death.

10/12/2020

19/11/2020

An interesting read about the practice of embalming

Grieving people can get pushed to embalm ‘for their own good’ when someone has a lot of physical changes. Here’s why death shouldn’t be censored.

05/11/2020

We’ve worked with the brilliant Ash Hayhurst to create a guide to trans and LGBTQ+ funerals. It also includes diversity training opportunities.

01/10/2020

ITV has a programme tonight about the costs of funerals. And you may also glimpse me: they came to Coffin Club to film, just before lockdown.

24/09/2020

Public health (formerly 'pauper') funerals are more & more common, given the rising costs and the number of people with no family to take charge. Helpful info if you have to negotiate the system.

What are your rights when it comes to public health funerals, once known as pauper's funerals? We've teamed up with the charity Down to Earth to answer some difficult questions.