Dead Good Legacies

Dead Good Legacies Back our first picture book *The Midnight Moth* on Kickstarter. We need to raise £5k in 30 days. alternative funerals, eco-funerals, DIY acts of remembrance).

It's all or nothing: if we don't hit target, we don't get the funding! Thanks for your support, loads of great rewards on offer, including the book! ❤️ Dead Good was co-founded by sisters Katy Vigurs and Lindsey Vigurs in 2018. Dead Good provides a range of creative and imaginative ‘death positive’ services. ‘Death positive’ means talking openly and compassionately about life, death, dying, grief,

and remembrance rituals. Dead Good's services include advance funeral planning, 'Get Mortal' parties, living funerals, memorial events, personal legacy projects, and wider death education (e.g. Our aim is to support you to participate creatively, emotionally and physically in creating meaningful legacies, rituals and farewells. We will help you to work out how you want to be remembered and what personal legacies you want to leave behind. We work with the living, the dying and the dead; with individuals, families, groups of friends, and organisations. Dead Good is based in Sunderland (UK) and covers the North East England region for face-to-face work. We offer most of our services online too.

This is the most important box you'll ever have.Cue our best Brad Pitt impression 'What's in the box?! WHAT'S IN THE BOX...
02/06/2026

This is the most important box you'll ever have.

Cue our best Brad Pitt impression 'What's in the box?! WHAT'S IN THE BOX? What's in the effing box?'

(if you haven't seen Se7en, search 'Brad Pitt What's in the box' for a dramatic, shocking mysterious box scene. If nothing else, it makes a death box A LOT less scary by comparison)

What would be the first thing you put in or on your death box?

My (KV) first item to go in was a copy of my life insurance info. I then spent time choosing stickers to decorate the outside. Death boxes can be fun. When the time comes for my family to open the box (after my death), I want the box to be friendly and familiar. I want it to hold some surprises and treasures as well as important paperwork.

This month, I'll be adding my completed 'handle with care' zine, which contains my advance care wishes.

Then I'll add letters to my children. Weep.

Comment DEATH BOX if you'd like to know when we're running an online session to help you get your death box together.

Also, have you ordered a copy of GET AHEAD OF BEING DEAD by yet? It is published this month and is a practical guide to getting your affairs in order - infused with her trademark warmth and humour, obvs. And if anyone knows how to get ahead of being dead, it's Evie King! You've read Ashes to Admin, right?

And if you want a copy of our My Farewell funeral planning zine kit? Visit our webshop for hard copies & downloadables. Link in bio.

Now, MAKE YOUR DEATH BOX, pals. Create the outer shell, choose the container - then we can get started together.

Love you bye.

Photos by in the lodge at a breathtaking natural burial ground near Consett in NE England.

You already know we're massive fans of a green goodbye. Usually, we're advocating for natural burial as the greenest for...
01/06/2026

You already know we're massive fans of a green goodbye. Usually, we're advocating for natural burial as the greenest form of physical send-off in the UK, but we're also passionate about the power of nature-based grief rituals and ceremonies.

Here's just one example of the sort of grief ritual we support people to imagine and carry out. This one is particularly special as it intentionally companions grief across a year and ends with a shared tea ritual using the foraged florals. The opening of the jar, smelling the scent, and the brewing & sipping of the tea engages all senses.

Big shout out to our mum (MV) and Jen of Just Let Your Soul Grow who have been instrumental in expanding our knowledge of edible flowers & plants.

How have you found flowers and plants helpful for tending grief?

Love you bye

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These photos were taken in the wooden lodge at Seven Penny Meadow, a beautiful natural burial ground near Consett in NE England (UK). The lodge can be used for ceremonies large and small in all weather. Look at the wood burner, man!

Anyone else stopped adding music to their insta posts?It seems as a business account we can only use copyright free, or ...
01/06/2026

Anyone else stopped adding music to their insta posts?

It seems as a business account we can only use copyright free, or our own orginial music, on our insta posts / stories / reels.

So for now, whilst we figure out what to do with our backlog of posts that *do* have music (by deleting them? 😔), our posts will be quiet. Vote below for the best option going forwards...Just for fun. Loveyoubye.

We've supported two families with natural burials within the last month. These photos were all taken at Seven Penny Mead...
31/05/2026

We've supported two families with natural burials within the last month.

These photos were all taken at Seven Penny Meadow, a stunning natural burial ground near Consett, NE England. Owned and lovingly stewarded by Sumantha Abrams of

One of the families we helped asked for the green grave to be located near the large rustic outdoor table. They want to bring family, including young grandchildren, to Seven Penny Meadow to share relaxed, informal picnics near their person's final resting place. This was something that Sumantha was able to organise for them.

Tell us about your local or favourite natural burial grounds.

Which ones should me & LV visit in the UK and why?

Let's all rewild deathcare and funerals together, pals. One wild plot at a time.

Love you bye

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LEARN ABOUT GREEN, ECO-FRIENDLY FUNERAL CHOICES & NATURE-BASED CEREMONIES.Dear North East pals,Over the next 12 months -...
30/05/2026

LEARN ABOUT GREEN, ECO-FRIENDLY FUNERAL CHOICES & NATURE-BASED CEREMONIES.

Dear North East pals,

Over the next 12 months - and thanks to funding from - we'll be popping up as your friendly neighbourhood eco-funeral guides, bringing The Green Goodbye project to life.

DIARY DATE: We're running a GREEN GOODBYE evening workshop in County Durham at the wonderful eco-store on:

Thursday 11th June 18:30 - 20:30

Places are fully funded, so it's FREE to attend (hooray). But places are limited.

Book your place in store or email us at [email protected]

Comment below if you've got any questions about the event.

Love you bye

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Cameos by

More and more of our work and commissions involve working in public alongside children, young people and families to exp...
28/05/2026

More and more of our work and commissions involve working in public alongside children, young people and families to explore different aspects of mortality, death, dying, grief and funerals.

When invited into the conversations, children are mostly open, straightforward and curious about death.

They love opportunities for hands-on learning about death care practices.

In our shrouding workshops, they quickly get to grips with the art of folding and wrapping with heirloom natural fabrics.

They take the activities seriously. They are respectful.

Let's make more conversations available to children and young people and their families about death and dying.

This is important intergenerational work. Let's bring it back into the community.

Start your own shroud journey with these accounts:

rudkin
shrouds
shrouds

Shrouds aloud, pals.

Love you bye.

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We are UK sisters, Katy and Lindsey, and our dad died of bowel cancer in 2022. He's buried in a willow coffin (that we helped to weave) in a woodland burial ground under a young oak tree. After Dad's death, we both rashly quit our jobs to set up DEAD GOOD, an arts-led community interest company. Every little thing we do aims to expand public imagination and creative, ecological cultures around mortality, death rites, grief, legacy and acts of remembrance. Tap the link in our bio to find out how to work with us.

Today, we ran a subtle grief activity in the heart of a family-friendly community event in a local park. Grief & persona...
27/05/2026

Today, we ran a subtle grief activity in the heart of a family-friendly community event in a local park. Grief & personal acts of remembrance do not need to be hidden away. They can sit comfortably alongside games, music, gardening and picnics. Most people are glad of the chance to build remembering someone (or something) into their everyday life.

All that was needed today was a load of natural clay, wildflower seeds, and some gentle prompts and guidance.

Making with our hands seems to surface stories and memories.

Now let's set down our mini clay sculptures on the soil and watch the flowers grow.

What would you have sculpted?

Big, big thanks to members of (& teen volunteer Beatrice) and team members from for supporting the stall set up & activity.

This pop-up activity was fully funded by . Much more from The Green Goodbye project coming soon.

Love you bye

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We are UK sisters, Katy and Lindsey, and our dad died of bowel cancer in 2022. After Dad's death, we both rashly quit our jobs to set up DEAD GOOD, an arts-based community interest company. Every little thing we do aims to expand public imagination and creative cultures around mortality, death rites, grief, legacy and acts of remembrance. Tap the link in our bio to find out more.

For Ash & Seed, we designed a self-guided session that invited people to wander with the land.An invitation to wander, t...
25/05/2026

For Ash & Seed, we designed a self-guided session that invited people to wander with the land.

An invitation to wander, to notice, to listen, and to let the land meet you where you are.

People picked up a companion sheet on lovely textured paper stock and beautifully riso-printed by .

Then off they wandered. Into the meadows and woods, down to the spring and the pond. All senses alert. Listening and learning from the land and the more-than-human.

The land that holds us has much to share about life, death and grief.

Me and LV each took our own individual wanders with our sheets and boards. We were surprised by how profound and deeply personal the experience was.

The land knows how to hold us and our grief.

Love you bye.

When you gather with others to lament, something collective stirs.Our time at Ash & Seed has been an awakening of sorts....
24/05/2026

When you gather with others to lament, something collective stirs.

Our time at Ash & Seed has been an awakening of sorts.

Be part of the next one.

Love you bye.

A man once told us he wanted to be buried beneath an apple tree. He wants the tree pruned low enough for future generati...
21/05/2026

A man once told us he wanted to be buried beneath an apple tree.

He wants the tree pruned low enough for future generations to climb it and take apples from the branches.

A grave designed for joy and movement and play.

It is a plot that will make room for life.

When he started talking with us about his idea, he was sad because he didn't think it was a real possibility. When we told him about natural burial, natural burial sites, and maybe even being buried on your own land, his face lit up! He'd never heard of natural burial.

We sent him to have a wander in where there are fruit trees growing at the bottom of the wildflower natural burial ground.

You are allowed to imagine other ways of doing death, grief and remembrance.

You are allowed to ask what else might be possible.

What tree would you want to be buried under?

Love you bye.

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We are UK sisters, Katy and Lindsey, and our dad died of bowel cancer in 2022. He's buried in a woodland burial ground under a young oak tree. After Dad's death, we both rashly quit our jobs to set up DEAD GOOD, an arts-based community interest company. Every little thing we do aims to expand public imagination and creative, ecological cultures around mortality, death rites, grief, legacy and acts of remembrance. Tap the link in our bio to find out how to work with us.

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