Resources
Legacy & End-of-Life Planning Tools:
Legacy Share (UK) — A free UK-based platform to store and share important personal information, end-of-life wishes, memories, and practical details.
LegacyShare (US) — A US-based counterpart for digital legacy and end-of-life planning, for visitors from the States.
Capturing your priorities, stories, and wishes ensures that your voice remains present after your death, and helps those you love to honour your values and stay connected to you.
Grief and Bereavement Organisations:
When someone dies, having informed, compassionate support can help you navigate the raging storm that is losing a loved one. These organisations offer grounding support, reliable information, and communities who understand the complexities of grief.
The Good Grief Trust (UK) — A peer-led grief support network providing resources, stories, and help to connect with relevant services. It is run “by the bereaved for the bereaved”.
Grief.com (US) — a comprehensive grief resource offering writings, podcasts, online grief-support groups and practical guidance for navigating loss.
Trusted Companions for Support and Care:
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Katie Rose
Katie Rose is a gentle and experienced companion for life’s most tender thresholds. Whether navigating miscarriage, pregnancy loss or the dying process of a loved one, Katie Rose offers emotional, spiritual and practical support — holding space so grief and endings can be met with compassion, dignity and human presence. She works in person (in Hastings, UK) or online, and helps you and your loved ones find clarity, solace and support in deeply vulnerable times.
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Grace Brown
As a Grief Doula and Somatic Guide, Grace Brown uses somatic healing, creative work, body-memory and nature-rooted practices to support people through grief, life-transitions, ancestral trauma and rebirth. She offers somatic therapy, guided meditation and breathwork, space-holding and ritual work — helping you listen to your body’s wisdom, hold grief with reverence, and find embodied healing during or after loss. Grace is US based, and works on Zoom.
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David Field
Using the Somatic Experiencing methodology, David helps clients to reconnect with their bodies, process trauma stored within, and rebuild a capacity for peace, resilience, and self-compassion. Through one-to-one sessions, David offers a deeply attuned, compassionate, and trauma-informed space — guiding individuals toward nervous-system regulation, clarity, and emotional integration after trauma or upheaval. He sees clients in London and on Zoom.
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Carré Kwong Callaway
Death doula Carré supports individuals and families in-person as well as in documenting end-of-life wishes, creating living wills or advance-care plans, and mapping out what matters most — from care preferences to funeral choices and legacy details. She offers thoughtful, focused support helping you to define what you want, and ensuring your wishes can be honoured smoothly when the time comes. Carré is London based and meets on Zoom.
Green/Natural Burial & Eco-Funeral Options:
The Natural Burial Company (UK) — A network of natural burial grounds across the UK offering simple, earth-friendly burials without embalming, concrete vaults or heavy environmental impact. Their sites prioritise meadow, woodland and wildlife restoration.
Green Burial Council (US) — An educational organisation setting standards for natural burial across the US. Their directory helps you find certified green cemeteries, funeral homes and product providers committed to environmentally responsible, toxin-free post-death care. A trusted starting point for anyone seeking ecological funeral options in the States.
Choosing a green or natural burial allows your death to return you to the earth—offering an ecological, intentional alternative that honours both your body and the land which held it in life.
Death Education & Culture Shift:
Death Cafe — A worldwide movement offering informal, peer-led gatherings where people meet (online or in person) to talk openly about death. Not therapy or teaching, simply honest conversation, community, and the chance to explore mortality free from taboo.
The Order of the Good Death — A collective founded by mortician, author and educator Caitlin Doughty, dedicated to transforming how we understand death and the funeral industry. Their resources explore green burial, death-positive culture, end-of-life choices, and the re-humanising of deathcare practices. They’re doing really important work.
Exploring death openly helps us to unlearn fear, deepen our relationship with mortality, and re-enter the ancient and human work of tending endings together.
Books on Grief, Death & Being Human
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The Smell of Rain on Dust
BY MARTÍN PRECHTEL
A lyrical and soul-centred exploration of grief as an act of praise. Prechtel reframes mourning as a necessary expression of love—something communal, embodied, and spiritually alive. His teachings invite an honouring of loss by allowing grief to move through us as an active devotion to what has mattered.
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Die Wise
BY STEPHEN JENKINSON
Die Wise is an uncompromising meditation on our culture’s struggle to face death. Jenkinson challenges modern avoidance, and has us consider dying with courage, responsibility, and reverence. A powerful book for anyone rethinking how we belong to our death, our ancestors, and our communities.
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When Breath Becomes Air
BY PAUL KALANITHI
A deeply profound memoir written by a neurosurgeon as he confronts his own terminal diagnosis. This book reflects with clarity and tenderness on meaning, identity, vocation, and the question of how to live, and love, when ones time becomes clearly finite. Heartbreaking, deeply human and ultimately life-affirming.
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Being Mortal
BY ATUL GAWANDE
Gawande looks at ageing, frailty, and the realities of modern end-of-life care through a compassionate and accessible lens. He examines how medical systems fail to honour what truly matters, and offers a call to prioritise autonomy, dignity, and meaningful choices at end of life. A grounded, practical look at being mortal.