Planning a funeral?
Whether you’re planning your own funeral or a farewell for someone who has died, I’d like to help you make sense of the choices available, exploring the ideas you have and learning from you about the life to be celebrated.
Email hello@laurajaneportmann.com or text/whatsapp 07854140694 to arrange a call or consultation.
Celebrant services
Creating a funeral service in the Newcastle area - from £275
1:1 Planning Session
PLAN AHEAD BY LEARNING ABOUT YOUR OPTIONS - WHAT IS ALLOWED, WHAT SUITS YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES, AND THEN RECORD YOUR WISHES WITH DEAD GOOD CIC ETHICALLY PRINTED RISOGRAPH SHEETS.
£50 for 1 hour / £70 for 2 x 40 minute sessions
Group workshops and talks
INCORPORATE FUNERAL EDUCATION INTO ANOTHER EVENT OR ARRANGE A STAND-ALONE TALK.
From £75 for groups of 6
It’s up to you
Wrapped in an embroidered shroud, woven with wildflowers and wetted with whisky?
Cremated discreetly, then celebrated with a daytime disco - full of dogs, dancing and daiquiris?
Decorate your own coffin with your kids, have a kind and cheerful service with a cracking playlist
Funeral planning advice
The last thing you need!
The last thing you need!
Learn about the choices that are available to you for your final celebration.
This can be a difficult topic to raise with those closest to you, and you may have been put off making a plan by the expense and inflexibility of typical 'Funeral Plans'.
Whether you are just planning ahead, or know you are going to die soon, I would be happy to talk through alternative funeral arrangements with you, and help you put together your ideas for the perfect send-off. Alternatively I am I able to signpost you to my local colleagues who specialise in this work.
I’ve trained with the wonderful Coffin Club UK, who are passionate about enabling celebrants to offer more support, choice and creativity.
“The atoms that huddled for a cosmic blink around the shadow of a self will return to the seas that made us.
What will survive of us are shoreless seeds and stardust.”