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Death Education

Katy was an award-winning university teacher in the field of education for 20 years. She now brings her innovative approach to learning and teaching to DEAD GOOD. Lindsey is an experienced illustrator and designer and lends her unique and quirky style to everything we do.

You can book DEAD GOOD to create and run lively and engaging training on a variety of death education topics. Our favourite death education topics include:

  • living funerals

  • green funerals

  • diy / home funerals

  • modern / alternative funerals

  • personalised mourning rituals

  • living tribute projects

  • diy acts of remembrance & commemoration

Prices start at £100 per hour

Katy Vigurs funeral celebrant speaks in front of a wicker casket adorned with flowers. A Print "DEEDS NOT WORDS" visible nearby. The scene takes place outdoors, surrounded by trees and grass, with people seated in chairs listening.
“You translated our thoughts and memories perfectly, delivered it eloquently and professionally. We always felt in safe hands. Thank you.”
— TA's family

Modern Funerals and Celebrancy

If you are based in the North East of England, DEAD GOOD can support you to plan and conduct an imaginative, bespoke and deeply personalised funeral ceremony or celebration of life. We are particularly passionate about creating funerals that are inventive, involving, and environmentally conscious. We can also support you with a memorial event in a venue or location of your choice. 

Holding a memorial event is becoming more popular, especially where a direct cremation has occurred (which means no funeral ceremony took place at the time of cremation). For other families a death might have been a terrible shock, and the funeral itself can pass in a blur of grief. Under these circumstances,
a memorial event can be arranged at a later date when the family and friends feel ready to conduct a full celebration of life. We can even support you with a living funeral (a ceremony that takes place before you die).

We can: 

  • provide a humanist funeral celebrant (Katy)

  • advise on alternative and quirky venues for funerals

  • create bespoke funeral items, such as badges

  • suggest a range of greener funeral options  

  • support you to design a DIY or family-led funeral

  • recommend progressive funeral directors in the region 

Please contact us for more information. 

Booking Katy as a humanist funeral celebrant starts at £400 (this includes a detailed family meeting, writing the ceremony, and performing a 30 minute ceremony)

Booking Katy to write a life story for a funeral £300

Consultations for living funerals, home funerals and DIY funerals start at £100

A group of people sitting around an outdoor table with colourful food and drinks, handing out GET MORTAL funeral planning zine packs to each other. The table is covered with a bright striped tablecloth. The setting is a lush green garden.
Person writing on "My Farewell" GET MORTAL planning pack zine at a picnic table with colourful tablecloth, surrounded by healthy snacks

Plan Your Funeral

Not sure how to put the ‘fun’ into funeral planning?

Book us to host a GET MORTAL party for you and your friends.

Here at DEAD GOOD we are fangirls of advance planning! Our parties are a lighter, dare we say fun, way to discuss planning your own funeral ceremony. You and your friends will be encouraged to start thinking and talking about how you want to be remembered when you die, and what sort of farewell ceremony you’d like. GET MORTAL parties are two hours long and are designed to be participative, creative, empowering and fun. It’s an opportunity to reflect on your life and passions, including the music that has provided the soundtrack to your life.

Each party goer receives a GET MORTAL illustrated guide and worksheet to demystify the funeral planning process. These resources provide a set of prompts to help you consider key funeral options available at civil funerals in the UK today. Options to be discussed include eco-friendly funeral choices and less conventional practices, such as living funerals. 

Party goers leave the event with a comprehensive draft of their funeral wishes. This is important, as planning your own funeral in advance can ease the burden on your family, when the time comes for your funeral to be arranged.

GET MORTAL parties can be booked for 6 – 8 people and start at £200. 

Currently, we are only able to host parties in the North East of England and Cheshire, UK.

Alternatively, if you’d like to run a party for friends and family, without a GET MORTAL host, you can purchase a GET MORTAL party pack of materials and resources here.

Or if you’d rather plan your own funeral as a quiet, quirky activity by yourself, you can purchase an individual GET MORTAL planning pack here.

You can even book a one-to-one GET MORTAL session with DEAD GOOD if you want to plan your own funeral, but the parties aren’t your vibe. Just contact us here. We can use phone calls, video calls or even texts. Whichever style best suits your needs and preference. Prices start at £100

Creative Rituals

How do you want to be remembered? Where do you want people to remember you?

Here at DEAD GOOD we support the design of spontaneous and DIY creative rituals that individuals and families create as personal acts of commemoration. In our experience the design of personal rituals can help to create and maintain an ongoing symbolic connection to the person who has died. 

For example, after our Dad died we carried a small stone sculpture he’d carved to the highest point of a route he walked annually in the Manifold Valley. We then turned it into a live geocache for others to seek and find. This felt like a fitting tribute to our dad as he loved devising treasure hunts, and he loved sharing that particular walk with others.

We can help you create your own DIY acts of remembrance that will be meaningful and fitting for your family.

Prices start at £150 for a consultation, plus a list of bespoke DIY remembrance ideas.

Please contact us for more information about how we can help.

Assorted colourful flowers and seashells arranged in a mandala for a community DIY act of remembrance on a wooden surface outdoors in sunlight.

Story Keeping

What imprint do you want your life to leave?

DEAD GOOD can help you with your story keeping. This is a way of handing down stories, memories and traditions that are meaningful to your life and values, and that will outlast you.

Much of what we did with our dad in his final year was story keeping work. You can see how we approached this with our dad here and watch a film of Lindsey’s public art tribute to him here.

Most story keeping work can be carried out virtually. If you live in the North East of England or Cheshire, UK, then we can arrange to work together in-person.

Every story keeping project will be different! But to give you an idea, examples might include: 

  • Setting up a living tribute to collect memories from friends and family (e.g. memory jar)

  • Recording your memories, adventures and life stories (via interviews using photographs, maps, keepsakes)

  • Creating treasure hunts or scavenger hunts for family and friends 

  • Designing maps & journeys to allow friends and family to trace your footsteps

  • Finding ways to creatively record the stories behind family heirlooms

  • Designing a piece of performance art or the creation of a personal ritual

Prices start at £150 for a consultation plus a list of bespoke story keeping ideas.

We are available to facilitate full story keeping projects, starting at £500

Living Funerals

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