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.

At a loose end this Saturday?Come to Matlock and spend the afternoon with us creating collaged maps of our lives.Craftin...
21/04/2026

At a loose end this Saturday?

Come to Matlock and spend the afternoon with us creating collaged maps of our lives.

Crafting personal legacies in the company of others.

Sharing our stories.

Hosted by the brilliant at their HQ.

Two tickets left.

Link in bio.

See you in Matlock, Derbyshire!

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The printed proof copy of The Midnight Moth has arrived!We got to hold it in our hands for the first time. A big day.Yes...
18/04/2026

The printed proof copy of The Midnight Moth has arrived!

We got to hold it in our hands for the first time. A big day.

Yesterday, we met up in a café to look at the proof copy together.

We discussed and agreed the final tweaks that LV will edit next week.

And THEN we can send the book to print!

We have now paid for the first print run on the back of the Kickstarter campaign and having received the funds.

THANK YOU TO OUR BACKERS AND EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED THE PROJECT BY SHARING & ENGAGING.

We just had to wait to see the printed proof in the flesh before we can schedule the first edition print run.

If you're one of the people who pre-ordered a physical copy of the book through Kickstarter, we need you to tell us your postal address.

You can do this by logging into your Kickstarter account and clicking on the messages waiting for you about your order and then follow the instructions.

Or you can check your email & junk folder for the automated emails from Kickstarter asking for your address.

Or you can email us directly at hello@deadgood.org and provide your name & postal address that way.

Please use one of these options to get your address to us.

We want to send you your copy as soon as we receive the books from the first print run.

We'll do another print progress update soon.

But for now, we enjoy the moment of finally seeing the Moth in print.

Not long now, pals.

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This is us.We are sisters, Katy and Lindsey Vigurs, and we are death workers and community educators. We work with other...
17/04/2026

This is us.

We are sisters, Katy and Lindsey Vigurs, and we are death workers and community educators.

We work with others to co-create nature-based approaches to death, dying and remembrance.

Through art, ceremony and activism.

Our community work aims to expand public imagination and creative cultures around mortality, death rites, and grief.

It is also important to us to contribute to rewilding deathcare and funerals as an art and as an ecological and community-held experience.

We were born in Stoke-on-Trent, but we come from the in-between spaces that sit between art and academia, care work and social justice, forests and seashores, personal losses and collective questions.

We are guided by a belief in creativity as a vital tool for meaning-making, and in rituals that are practical, relational and grounded in the living world.

Our dream for this world is that expansive, more-than-human death cultures are welcomed and nurtured. Where care is shared, and the end-of-life is held with creativity, honesty and collective responsibility. And ultimately, where death reconnects us to the Earth, community and the cycles that hold us.

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Today, we made a personal pilgrimage in memory of our dad on his birthday.We retraced his footsteps. A rural circular wa...
16/04/2026

Today, we made a personal pilgrimage in memory of our dad on his birthday.

We retraced his footsteps. A rural circular walk he loved, and that meant a lot to him.

I (KV) took his owl walking pole. Very much needed due to some steep, slippy, sheepy inclines.

You may also remember that we hid a small stone sculpture (that Dad made) at the summit of the walk. We did this four years ago now, a few weeks after his funeral.

LV also turned the sculpture into a public geocache so that 'treasure hunters' could find it if they were in the area.

This means that not only were we able to find and hold Dad's sculpture today, we could also look inside the cache (recycled coffee jar) to find the visitor log book.

The sculpture is becoming fully mossed! Turning back into the land. There is something immensely soothing about this slow return.

Does your grief tending include retracing footsteps (or treasure hunts)? Fill us in, pals.

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A rare treat yesterday evening to get three generations of Vigurses together at the same table in Macclesfield.Some of u...
16/04/2026

A rare treat yesterday evening to get three generations of Vigurses together at the same table in Macclesfield.

Some of us had been to the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke-on-Trent (Longton) in the morning (a really excellent heritage space - with an exhibition solely dedicated to toilets, called 'Flushed with Pride').

We came away marvelling at the properties and possibilities of clay.

Thus, an impromptu family clay play session occurred while tea was cooking.

We also found out yesterday that we'll be running clay talisman workshops called SEEDS OF HOPE at in July. More on that in a separate post soon.

Hooray for clay, pals.

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I'm (KV) staying with our mum this week in Stoke.I've been showing my six year old family photo albums from the 1980s. C...
15/04/2026

I'm (KV) staying with our mum this week in Stoke.

I've been showing my six year old family photo albums from the 1980s. Cue lots of stories from when me and LV were his age and living in Wolverhampton.

He liked this picture of little LV dressed up in a DIY butterfly costume.

I was surprised what memories surfaced as we looked through the albums.

I found myself remembering the death of our next-door neighbour and our parents telling us that she had died and explaining why all the curtains were shut for days on end. Our first introduction to a mourning custom. One handed down from the Victorians, I guess.

What mourning customs do we practice now?

Any you'd like to see brought back?

Or new ones imagined?

BTW, have you listened to our Puny Mortal Podcast? We discuss our first experiences of death and grief in episode one. Tap the link in our bio to have a listen.

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Where do we go with our grief? Back to the land, the earth, to community, with kindred spirits. Held with story and song...
12/04/2026

Where do we go with our grief? Back to the land, the earth, to community, with kindred spirits. Held with story and song, ceremony and ritual, art, craft and mutual inspiration.

If you grieve at this time; whether for your own sorrows or the sorrows of the world; Ash & Seed is for you.

22-25 May 2026, Herefordshire, UK.

A weekend of creative collective space for grief and mourning on the gentle hills of Ruthlands Farm in Herefordshire. The pics & videos give you a taste of the location. It is so, so peaceful.

Half an hour west of Hereford. An hour north of Cardiff. An hour and 15 mins north of Bristol.

Check out the Ash & Seed team (tap link in bio). These people are to be the hearth tenders of a co-creative ceremony over 3 nights; nourishing with stories, talks, song, music, lamentation, dance, embodiment, workshops, ritual, film-showings, arts, crafts, great food, sauna and time spent in silence.

Me and LV have designed a self-led 'wander map' of the Ash & Seed land as one of our contributions to the weekend. This map will invite embodied wandering and wondering during the event. You'll be peeping in hedgerows, following the stream, winding through the woodland and meandering in the meadows. All whilst connecting with and tending to your grief.

We're really looking forward to camping in our rainbow bell tent and spending time in community with other like-minded grievers. And we LOVE storytelling, live music, and saunas so we're going to feel very at home.

A ticket costs £295. This fee covers 3 nights camping with your own tent or van, full catering and all the incredible sessions, story, song, art and workshops.

If you need time to pay for your ticket contact sacredcirclecic@gmail.com.

Do let us know if you're going. We'd love to see you there.

And please share with others who might enjoy/need this.

We've added the link to our bio so you can find out more.



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Our dad is called Peter. We inherited pea seeds after his death. I (LV) call them Peaters.I planted mine on KV's bday in...
11/04/2026

Our dad is called Peter. We inherited pea seeds after his death. I (LV) call them Peaters.

I planted mine on KV's bday in empty toilet roll middles.

I hardened them off this week and planted them out on Friday in a planter I have borrowed from our mum (MV). This planter was a gift from our mum to our dad on his last birthday.

All of this is joyous and soothing to me. I tend not to be a sentimental person but I love these connections and continuing bonds. They keep me in the present as well as the past.

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Image descriptions:
1. Close up of young pea plants in a chonky ceramic planter, supported by natural pea sticks made from windfall neighbourhood twigs
2. Blue planter in its full messy glory in LV's front garden. Nothing was purchased in the making of this pea planter. All recycled, gifted, repurposed and borrowed
3. The planter is tucked away at the side of lv's house where the afternoon sun shines.
4. Tiny film of LV walking from the pavement over to the front lawn, showing her pink trackieBs and multicolour crocs, to the final growing position of the pea plants. She heard a curlew while planting and was incredibly grateful to acknowledge the peace and safety of where she lives.

We are both growing Dad's legacy peas this year.Harvested from the six seeds our aunt surprised us with 12 months ago.Ju...
10/04/2026

We are both growing Dad's legacy peas this year.

Harvested from the six seeds our aunt surprised us with 12 months ago.

Just six seeds turned into 300 seeds.

Most of which we swapped with you for donations to The Sameer Project.

Have you planted yours?

I (KV) planted mine three days ago and already they are waking up on the kitchen windowsill.

Waving their green tips at me.

A stunningly simple way to keep Dad's seasonal rhythms alive.

The peas are coming! They're on their way.

Little living legacies can help us tend our grief.

How will you tend your grief this week?

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Supporting a group of family and friends with a green burial is one of our favourite things to do.Woodland burials someh...
09/04/2026

Supporting a group of family and friends with a green burial is one of our favourite things to do.

Woodland burials somehow soften and hold the sadness people carry.

That is the power of nature.

I know that sounds glib, but it's really true.

Would you consider a green burial for you or yours?

Where is the nearest natural burial ground to where you live? Have you visited?

Tell us what you think.

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This is one of the ways we support families at funerals.Helping them come up with meaningful, personal acts that involve...
08/04/2026

This is one of the ways we support families at funerals.

Helping them come up with meaningful, personal acts that involve everyone.

I spent this morning with three generations of a family in their back garden.

The young grandchildren won't be at the funeral tomorrow, but today, they chose and picked flowers for their grandma from her garden.

I'll be turning these flowers into little posies for the woodland burial tomorrow.

The family will add the posies to the top of the coffin during the committal.

A final act of love.

The grandchildren will be present through the handpicked posies.

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