Coffin Club Woodbridge

07/10/2026

Choices, choices choices … at a typical ‘Coffin Club’ cake and conversation session we talk about saying goodbye and the many different ways you could do it! No right or wrongs… (and, I should add, no coffins in sight).

When you think of a coffin, are you picturing a big shiny wooden box with brass handles?

You’ve got options.

Wicker, willow, cardboard, bamboo, seagrass, a shroud… you can even have something colourful, covered in pictures or absolutely smothered in glitter if subtlety was never really your thing.

Your coffin can be simple, eco-friendly, completely bonkers or somewhere in between.

Basically, there’s no rule saying your last box has to be a boring one.

We’ve got a free article on the Coffin Club website looking at some of the choices out there – and there are a LOT more than you might think.

Have a nose through “Coffins, Shrouds & Wicker Baskets: What Will You Be Buried In?”

So, what are you going out in?

08/09/2026

Not yet here in UK, but watch the space!

It takes seven days to grow a coffin from mushrooms and in ideal conditions, 45 days for it biodegrade.

03/09/2026

This is not how it ‘should be’ done ( there is no right way!) but how it COULD be done… because there are so many ways to say goodbye.

24/05/2026

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19/05/2026

I’m all for choice … of the informed kind.

19/05/2026

Mellow couple of hours, hanging out with a few people yesterday at Woodbridge Library Suffolk talking about funeral options - as you do! Even laughing a bit, definitely smiling a lot, and hopefully leaving with a headful of ideas. Yes, would-be Coffin Clubbers, I jumped in and hosted my first Coffin Club Woodbridge… and I will be back!

08/12/2023

A v close friend of mine died in her 50s of cancer and her siblings gave her a ‘direct cremation ‘ … selected friends were invited to ‘a large’ drink up some days later, and her ashes were scattered off a boat into the lake ( her wish apparently). But there was NO sense of ceremony, or formal input from friends or colleagues, no proclaiming what she meant to us, or how hard she worked and what she achieved in her career, despite a somewhat sad and unconventional childhood. It’s 6 years ago and I still feel sad about the lack of ceremony, solemnity, or tribute and in National Grief Awareness week, and as a Funeral Celebrant, I’m finally saying it. How you say goodbye to those you love is important !

The blog below by colleague Dinah Liversidge at the Association of Independent Celebrants gives an excellent argument for ceremony. Please read it!

https://www.celebrantcoaching.com/2023/12/05/direct-cremation/

14/07/2022

Watching the pain of others close-up can be so hard sometimes as a celebrant. Recently I delivered a service written almost word-for-word by the sisters of the deceased - who died very suddenly in his early 50s. Their words were magnificent and it felt such a privilege to deliver them clearly and calmly, as I knew they just could not. ❤️