– Poppy's Funerals

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.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elke Wetzig (Elya), CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

Ideas & Guidance

What is ‘water cremation' — and why did Desmond Tutu choose it?

Archbishop Desmond Tutu chose aquamation, or water cremation, for environmental reasons. We explore the benefits of this new technology of alkaline hydrolysis as it comes to the UK.

Opinion

What does 2023 hold for Poppy’s?

Founder Poppy and CEO Clare explain some exciting changes we made during 2022 to ensure that Poppy’s remains true to its values and is ready for the future.