12. #TheGiftOfConversation: The Bottom Drawer Book Will Start Conversations This Xmas
How can you better plan for death, and truly know how your loved ones want to be celebrated?
Lisa Herbert is the author of The Bottom Drawer Book, which is an after-death action plan to help people talk about and plan for death.
We chat with Lisa about the book and its humble beginnings, from cemetery wandering to agriculture and how these contributed to her writing about death.
In this episode we cover:
- Initiating discussions around death
- Early exposures to death and dying through books
- Alternative body disposal methods starting with origins in agriculture
- The start of the idea for the book
- Becoming an author and marketing the book
- Navigating push back
- Breaking down fear around death by talking about it more
- The often unregulated industry of funeral directors
- Funeral planning adding to the grief of death
- Families knowing they are following their loved ones wishes
- Handwritten notes can be so important for memories to live on
- A gift of good communication
- Knowing affairs are in order and taken care of.
Resources and links mentioned in this episode:
- #Hashtag Death Instagram: @hashtag_death
- Ways to work with Ingrid: forevernow.com.au
- Ingrid Reiger’s Facebook: @forevernowcelebrant
- Ingrid Reiger’s Instagram: @ingrid_forevernowcelebrant
- The Bottom Draw Book: @the_bottom_drawer_book
- The Bottom Drawer Book: www.thebottomdrawer book.com.au
In the website there are amazing links to the blogs which Lisa creates which are so well researched they are really like newspaper articles, thanks to Lisa’s amazing journalistic background. The one which we speak about specifically on the episode can be found at this link A song and a tattoo: the gift that Kelly’s mum left for her family. | The Bottom Drawer Book
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