Welcome to Living Legacies, holistic and sustainable funeral care services.
Creating a culture of life celebration!
Living Legacies is Aotearoa’s first natural funeral company, with a sustainable, holistic and celebratory approach to life, death and funerals.
How Living Legacies can help
Living Legacies is the only natural funeral company in Aotearoa offering the following services:
- Family-directed Home Funerals
- Guidance and information – which provides you and your whanau with step-by-step guidance through the process of planning, arranging and coordinating a funeral and the care and disposition of the body. Includes information and access to resources, practical assistance in caring for the body, and a range of biodegradable coffins. This holistic service educates, supports, and assists families making low-cost and environmentally sustainable funeral arrangements themselves without employing a funeral director. This means that you are in charge of the process at all times.
- Workshops – Educational services such as workshops to help you and your family prepare for the inevitable and leave a meaningful legacy.
- Living Legacies – a family funeral handbook for an evergreen world. A how-to manual for those who choose to arrange the whole process on their own.
- A range of biodegradable coffins made from sustainable, locally grown, untreated pine, poplar and willow. For more about our coffins, please visit the coffins page.
- Natural burials advice – This is an advisory service for councils and other organisations who want to provide a more environmentally sustainable burial option for their clients with Natural Burial Parks.
- Counselling – Lynda Hannah, B. Nat Med, Dip. Herb Med, founder of Living Legacies, provides a confidential counselling service and herbal healthcare.
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife.
The first question was,
“Did you bring joy?”
The second was,
“Did you find joy?”~ Leo Buscaglia ~
Welcome to Living Legacies, holistic and sustainable funeral care services.
Creating a culture of life celebration!
Living Legacies is “Aotearoa’s first natural funeral company, with a sustainable, holistic and celebratory approach to life, death and funerals.
How Living Legacies can help
Living Legacies is the only natural funeral company in Aotearoa offering the following services:
- Family-directed Home Funerals
- Guidance and information – which provides you and your whanau with step-by-step guidance through the process of planning, arranging and coordinating a funeral and the care and disposition of the body. Includes information and access to resources, practical assistance in caring for the body, and a range of biodegradable coffins. This holistic service educates, supports, and assists families making low-cost and environmentally sustainable funeral arrangements themselves without employing a funeral director. This means that you are in charge of the process at all times.
- Workshops – Educational services such as workshops to help you and your family prepare for the inevitable and leave a meaningful legacy.
- Living Legacies – a family funeral handbook for an evergreen world. A how-to manual for those who choose to arrange the whole process on their own.
- A range of biodegradable coffins made from sustainable, locally grown, untreated pine, poplar and willow. For more about our coffins, please visit the coffins page.
- Natural burials advice – This is an advisory service for councils and other organisations who want to provide a more environmentally sustainable burial option for their clients with Natural Burial Parks.
- Counselling – Lynda Hannah, B. Nat Med, Dip. Herb Med, founder of Living Legacies, provides a confidential counselling service and herbal healthcare.
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Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, “Did you bring joy?” The second was, “Did you find joy?”~ Leo Buscaglia ~
“If you would indeed behold the spirit of death,
open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one,
even as the river and the sea are one.”
~ Kahlil Gibran