The Green Funeral Company, Devon and Cornwall

A good Funeral is for the living but about the dead - and honours both. It stands at the core of what it means to be human.

"Thank you with all my heart, you have helped us more than you
can imagine - it has made all the difference."

The Green Funeral Company was founded in 2000 to offer an ecological alternative to traditional funerals. Since then we have helped hundreds of people through the traumatic days following a death and together we have created appropriate, emotionally rewarding funerals.

We are a small, family run business, situated at the home of Rupert and Claire Callender, a mill on the banks of the river Inny near Launceston. Nicky Bell, who is based in Totnes in Devon, has recently joined the company.

Whilst none of us come from traditional funeral backgrounds, we were moved to become funeral directors through our beliefs and experience of bereavement and its aftermath.

Rupert spent much of his childhood in the hospice where his mother worked, and the caring humanistic philosophy of the hospice movement is central to our work.

" You have a unique gift - thank you for sharing it with us."

"Thank you both for all that you did. I truly believe that the love and grieving hearts of so many has borne us along the river of meaning.
No-one stood on the banks; everyone waded in, and held us aloft.
They got wet."

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