– Poppy's Funerals

London LGBTQ+ centre room, with bookshelves, rainbow bunting and cafe-style tables and chairs

In Conversation

Introducing London's LGBTQ+ Death Cafe

We talk to Tom Ana from the London LGBTQ+ Centre about facilitating an LGBTQ+ specific Death Cafe

In Focus

A day in the life of Poppy's HQ

Angie is one of Poppy’s Client Support Advisors, the first point of contact for many of our clients. She gives us a glimpse behind the scenes on a busy day at Poppy’s.

Brightly coloured cards showing illustrations of funeral items on a black background placed under thumbs up / thumbs down headings- a completed Talking Death

In Conversation

Talking Mats — Giving everyone a voice in funeral planning

Gillian Robertson is a funeral celebrant and the retired headteacher of a special educational school. She talked to us about why she’s so passionate about involving people with communication difficulties in funeral planning.

A group of people lowering a pine coffin into a grave at a natural burial site

Opinion

How tomorrow's tech can change death care today

Founder Poppy Mardall concludes our series of blogs on new death care technologies with a crucial question: how can new insight and innovation inspire us to reconsider, reframe and rethink the choices we already have?

Bucket of soil from Recompose human composting

Opinion

Poppy's behind-the-scenes visit to Recompose

Founder Poppy Mardall and CEO Clare Montagu visited Recompose’s first human composting facility to see this new technology for themselves.

Six people , surrounded by plants and greenery, at Recompose's human composting facility in Seattle, behind them is an array of beehive shaped white metal vessels in which natural organic reduction takes place.

In Conversation

What is human composting — and how could it transform death care?

Morgan Yarborough, from Recompose in Seattle, explains what this new technology involves and the environmental benefits it brings.