We believe it’s time for a more open conversation about death, dying and funerals.
In this blog, we give practical advice and ideas to help you if you are arranging a funeral or experiencing bereavement; answer your frequently asked questions/FAQs; and share stories, interviews and opinions.
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You wouldn’t buy a new car, house or phone — or even a pair of shoes — without doing your research and considering your options. So why should planning a funeral be any different?
As part of our series on accessible funerals, Stephanie Owens unpacks the experiences of neurodivergent people and shares her thoughts on how funeral care could better meet their needs.
The Dying Matters Awareness Week theme is ‘a good place to die’. We explored this theme in a special panel event. In this blog, we ask our speakers and other friends to share their thoughts about what being in a good place to die means to them, professionally, personally and practically.
Poppy’s began in 2012 with a vision to empower and support people to have better experiences of funerals by making informed choice and gentle, thoughtful care the norm. Since then, we’ve been privileged to have supported so many people.
Whatever you think of the new ITV drama series, ‘Finding Alice’, it opens up questions about death, funerals and coping with grief which are rarely talked about on primetime TV. But how realistic is it?
Grieving people often get pushed to embalm ‘for their own good’ by funeral directors. This is especially true when someone who has died has a lot of physical changes. Here’s why death shouldn’t be censored, even in the hardest circumstances.