​What Living Legacies can do for you

Here are a few things….

• Help you plan your own or your loved one’s funeral at any time
• Help you make the difficult decisions like burial/cremation, where, how, etc
• Support during the days either side of death
• Provide information on the practical details of funerals
• Someone to talk to about your feelings about death
• Support for family members
• Help you create a photographic or video legacy
• Guidance about children’s involvement in the process
• Supply biodegradable and sustainably-produced coffins
• Provide information about regulations, rights, and responsibilities, etc
• Counselling for grief or other issues
• Help you write an Ethical Will
• Lobby for changes in out-dated laws
• Provide books and other resources to facilitate your grieving
• Workshops and education programmes about death, dying and funerals
• Encourage autonomy and individuality in the process of dying and after-death care
• Accept and work within your spiritual belief system
• Provide information, and links to organisations, resources and information on environmental matters, climate change, forests, conservation, and what else you can do to help our planet
• Help establish support groups if required
• Promote the concept of free and informed choice
• Encourage a consultative, inclusive and community-centred focus
• Act with respect and sensitivity to people’s lives, needs and feelings
• Celebrate life!