Dead Good Legacies

Dead Good Legacies Back our first picture book *The Midnight Moth* on Kickstarter. We need to raise £5k in 30 days. alternative funerals, eco-funerals, DIY acts of remembrance).

It's all or nothing: if we don't hit target, we don't get the funding! Thanks for your support, loads of great rewards on offer, including the book! ❤️ Dead Good was co-founded by sisters Katy Vigurs and Lindsey Vigurs in 2018. Dead Good provides a range of creative and imaginative ‘death positive’ services. ‘Death positive’ means talking openly and compassionately about life, death, dying, grief,

and remembrance rituals. Dead Good's services include advance funeral planning, 'Get Mortal' parties, living funerals, memorial events, personal legacy projects, and wider death education (e.g. Our aim is to support you to participate creatively, emotionally and physically in creating meaningful legacies, rituals and farewells. We will help you to work out how you want to be remembered and what personal legacies you want to leave behind. We work with the living, the dying and the dead; with individuals, families, groups of friends, and organisations. Dead Good is based in Sunderland (UK) and covers the North East England region for face-to-face work. We offer most of our services online too.

Today, we ran a subtle grief activity in the heart of a family-friendly community event in a local park. Grief & persona...
27/05/2026

Today, we ran a subtle grief activity in the heart of a family-friendly community event in a local park. Grief & personal acts of remembrance do not need to be hidden away. They can sit comfortably alongside games, music, gardening and picnics. Most people are glad of the chance to build remembering someone (or something) into their everyday life.

All that was needed today was a load of natural clay, wildflower seeds, and some gentle prompts and guidance.

Making with our hands seems to surface stories and memories.

Now let's set down our mini clay sculptures on the soil and watch the flowers grow.

What would you have sculpted?

Big, big thanks to members of (& teen volunteer Beatrice) and team members from for supporting the stall set up & activity.

This pop-up activity was fully funded by . Much more from The Green Goodbye project coming soon.

Love you bye

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We are UK sisters, Katy and Lindsey, and our dad died of bowel cancer in 2022. After Dad's death, we both rashly quit our jobs to set up DEAD GOOD, an arts-based community interest company. Every little thing we do aims to expand public imagination and creative cultures around mortality, death rites, grief, legacy and acts of remembrance. Tap the link in our bio to find out more.

For Ash & Seed, we designed a self-guided session that invited people to wander with the land.An invitation to wander, t...
25/05/2026

For Ash & Seed, we designed a self-guided session that invited people to wander with the land.

An invitation to wander, to notice, to listen, and to let the land meet you where you are.

People picked up a companion sheet on lovely textured paper stock and beautifully riso-printed by .

Then off they wandered. Into the meadows and woods, down to the spring and the pond. All senses alert. Listening and learning from the land and the more-than-human.

The land that holds us has much to share about life, death and grief.

Me and LV each took our own individual wanders with our sheets and boards. We were surprised by how profound and deeply personal the experience was.

The land knows how to hold us and our grief.

Love you bye.

When you gather with others to lament, something collective stirs.Our time at Ash & Seed has been an awakening of sorts....
24/05/2026

When you gather with others to lament, something collective stirs.

Our time at Ash & Seed has been an awakening of sorts.

Be part of the next one.

Love you bye.

A man once told us he wanted to be buried beneath an apple tree. He wants the tree pruned low enough for future generati...
21/05/2026

A man once told us he wanted to be buried beneath an apple tree.

He wants the tree pruned low enough for future generations to climb it and take apples from the branches.

A grave designed for joy and movement and play.

It is a plot that will make room for life.

When he started talking with us about his idea, he was sad because he didn't think it was a real possibility. When we told him about natural burial, natural burial sites, and maybe even being buried on your own land, his face lit up! He'd never heard of natural burial.

We sent him to have a wander in where there are fruit trees growing at the bottom of the wildflower natural burial ground.

You are allowed to imagine other ways of doing death, grief and remembrance.

You are allowed to ask what else might be possible.

What tree would you want to be buried under?

Love you bye.

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We are UK sisters, Katy and Lindsey, and our dad died of bowel cancer in 2022. He's buried in a woodland burial ground under a young oak tree. After Dad's death, we both rashly quit our jobs to set up DEAD GOOD, an arts-based community interest company. Every little thing we do aims to expand public imagination and creative, ecological cultures around mortality, death rites, grief, legacy and acts of remembrance. Tap the link in our bio to find out how to work with us.

There’s a kind of care work we rarely talk about.Like helping someone clear the garage or loft. Or maybe sorting the pap...
20/05/2026

There’s a kind of care work we rarely talk about.

Like helping someone clear the garage or loft. Or maybe sorting the paperwork or labelling old photographs.

We supported Dad in a lot of different ways during his final year. But we also kept putting off his direct request to help him sort out the (long) garage. A mundane mausoleum of old stuff.

And then it was too late. Because he died.

And guess what, we still had to sort the garage! Only it was less fun and more heavy as a task because lots of items we picked up held stories and tales which we would now never know.

It felt weird keeping stuff, sending it to a charity shop, or putting it in the skip without really knowing its provenance or personal history.

I really wish we'd done this with Dad while he was alive.

AND IT ONLY TOOK TWO DAYS. I 100% could have fitted this in around work and other commitments. But it never got prioritised. Never reached the top of the list.

On reflection, when someone asks for help with these jobs, they might be trying to make things easier for the people left behind after they die. They might be trying to reminisce or tell stories. To pass things on. To feel accompanied and supported.

It's an opportunity we missed.

Love you bye.

Let's talk about home vigils. It's something we're really passionate about.A vigil can create unhurried time and space t...
19/05/2026

Let's talk about home vigils. It's something we're really passionate about.

A vigil can create unhurried time and space to stay close to the reality of a death before the funeral takes place.

You do not have to be religious to hold a vigil.

It is an ancient deathcare practice. For most of human history, people were cared for at home after they died or were brought back into the home before the funeral.

Our ancestors and their friends, neighbours, and family would gather around the body to sit, wash, pray, sing, cry, tell stories, share simple food, and maybe keep watch through the night.

A vigil was community care in action.

And they're still possible today, but we have to know we can ask for them and that we can ask for support to carry them out.

The body does not have to be visible. Your person can be fully wrapped or shrouded. Or they can be in their coffin. It is the presence of their body that's important.

We find that home vigils can strengthen collective grief before a funeral.

Is this something that speaks to you?

Have you been to or held a vigil for one of your people?

Did you have extetnal support from a death doula or funeral director?

We'd love more people to know that home vigils are something you can ask for when someone dies.

Love you bye

DEAD GOOD is a proud member of the Canny Death Collective. And the Canny Death Collective will be hosting a pop-up space...
18/05/2026

DEAD GOOD is a proud member of the Canny Death Collective.

And the Canny Death Collective will be hosting a pop-up space at on 4 & 5 July in Kirkleatham (Redcar).

Join us for down-to-earth chats and activities exploring greener ways of doing funerals, death, grief, and remembrance.

Together we’ll explore:
- natural/green burial and eco-friendly funeral options
- funeral rituals and meaningful alternatives
- shroud wrapping, eco-coffins and sustainable funeral materials
- how to create a farewell ceremony that reflects your values, is affordable and sustainable.

Expect conversation, creativity, and practical ideas.

You’ll leave the space feeling:
- more informed about eco-friendly funerals
- more comfortable talking about death and grief
- inspired by new possibilities at the end-of-life & for saying goodbye

The Festival of Thrift is an absolutely amazing free festival in the NE of England!

Come on over, pals.

Love you bye

The Canny Death Collective is made up of:
(Emma)
(Kate)
(Helen)
(Sumantha)
(Karen)
and KV & LV from

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I (LV) have made *some* progress this year with my ☑️ can you guess☑️ which ones☑️ I have ticked off?➡️ Swipe to see Wh...
15/05/2026

I (LV) have made *some* progress this year with my

☑️ can you guess
☑️ which ones
☑️ I have ticked off?
➡️ Swipe to see

What have you ticked off so far? What's the weirdest thing on your list?

Love you bye

Did you know you can have a direct natural burial in the UK?It's the eco-friendly equivalent of a direct cremation.We tr...
12/05/2026

Did you know you can have a direct natural burial in the UK?

It's the eco-friendly equivalent of a direct cremation.

We truly wish this low-cost green option was as well known as direct cremation!

In 2026, a direct natural burial costs about £1900.

That's still about £300 more than a direct cremation, BUT it's also about £3000 less than a simple standard burial where mourners are present.

Please tell others that direct natural burial is a thing!

Please visit your local natural burial grounds.

And please talk to us about how it's still possible to weave meaningful ceremony pre- and/or post-direct cremation or direct natural burial. We've helped a lot of people do this so very beautifully, and we can help you too.

Just drop us a line, pals.

Love you bye

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We are UK sisters, Katy and Lindsey, and our dad died of bowel cancer in 2022. After Dad's death, we both rashly quit our jobs to set up DEAD GOOD, an arts-based community interest company. Every little thing we do aims to expand public imagination and creative cultures around mortality, death rites, grief, legacy and acts of remembrance. Tap the link in our bio to find out more.

10/05/2026

What happens when you meet your dead dad in Walsall?

I spent the day in communing with our dead dad, dead artists, dead collectors and it was the most alive I have felt in months.

Love you bye

Swipe to see what happened when I (LV) went on one of my disabled carers breaks. One night away by myself in Walsall. No...
10/05/2026

Swipe to see what happened when I (LV) went on one of my disabled carers breaks. One night away by myself in Walsall. Not a natural destination for a short break but a very important place us Vigurses.

The Garman Ryan art collection at is part of our family legacy and our parents work in the galleries, libraries and museums of the Midlands. Our dad helped to bring this collection together and it is on permanent display. He visited often, even fairly late on in his life, and gave the occasional tour to groups of interested people.

If you can get there, I promise its worth the trip. I could have spent a whole week exploring the galleries and the archive.

I bought 'yes bab' socks from the gallery shop by to celebrate my black country heritage.

Nice one dad, you fu***ng art legend.

What family legacy are you particularly proud of?

LOVE YOU BYE

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