Personal Legacy Projects
What imprint do you want your life to leave?
DEAD GOOD can help you with your story keeping, enabling the creation of inventive, fitting and memorable personal legacy projects.
Creating an imaginative and unique personal legacy project 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 living legacy work. You can see how we approached legacy work with our Dad here and watch a film of Lindsey’s public art tribute to him here.
Most legacy work can be carried out virtually. If you live in the North East of England, then we can arrange to work together in-person.
Every legacy project will be different! But to give you an idea, examples of legacy projects 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 £100 for a legacy consultation plus a list of bespoke legacy ideas. Full legacy projects start at £500
Get Mortal Parties
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 cost £200.
Currently, we are only able to host parties in the North East of England.
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.
“You translated our thoughts and memories perfectly, delivered it eloquently and professionally. We always felt in safe hands. Thank you.”
Funerals
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 even support you with a living funeral (a ceremony that takes place before you die).
We can:
provide a humanist funeral celebrant
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 £250
Consultations for living funerals, home funerals and DIY funerals start at £100
“It has been very relaxing to slowly unwrap these beautiful seed bombs. Taking time to unravel the twine and feel the clay...my mum would have loved the creativity, the thought and the action of these being made. Thank you. ”
Memorials
How do you want to be remembered? Where do you want people to remember you?
Here at DEAD GOOD we think about creating memorials in two main ways.
Firstly, there are the more spontaneous and DIY memorials that individuals and families create as personal commemoration rituals. We work with families to develop highly personalised remembrance rituals. 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 memorial for 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 £100 for a memorial consultation plus a list of bespoke DIY remembrance ideas
Secondly, there’s the memorial as an event. If you are based in the North East of England, DEAD GOOD can support you to plan and conduct a bright, engaging, and deeply personalised memorial event or celebration of life, 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 death). 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.
For memorial events we can:
provide a humanist celebrant
advise on alternative and quirky venues and locations for memorials
Support you to create a bespoke, personalised ritual
Create bespoke memorial items, such as badges for guests to wear
support you to design a DIY or family-led memorial
Booking Katy as a humanist celebrant for a memorial event starts at £400 (this includes a detailed family meeting, writing the ceremony, and performing a 30 minute ceremony).
Memorial event consultations start from £100
Please contact us for more information about how we can help.
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.
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 legacy projects
diy acts of remembrance & commemoration
Prices start as £75 per hour