Final Fling: the home of life + death decisions

We’re the go-to community at a critical lifestage. We’re tackling the taboo. We want to ‘do death better’.

We want to be to death what Mumsnet is to birth.

See what the media think of us.

We’ll come and speak to you or your group at the drop of a hat. We’re passionate! See what folks have said about our pacy presentations:

“Best speaker of the day” Vegfest organiser

“Dynamic and spirited” Death Doula conference attendee

“Energetic and uplifting” Bath University participant

“Knowledgable and fun” NHS consultant

What Final Fling offers 

1. to sort your affairs
2. to find celebrants, funeral directors and more
3. This Big Fat Blog with tips on dealing with a death, organising a funeral and more.

Life Planning Tools 

Our FREE tools are easy to use and offer a secure space to store essential info and share it with next of kin:

• Safe Deposit Box: capture20 essential documents next of kin will need; appoint a trusted keyholder
• Memory Box:store and pass on valuable legacies, messages, family treasures and tell your story
• Funeral wishes: burial or cremation, funeral readings, music, ideas
• Bucket List: ‘before I go’ wishlist
• Notices & Tributes– mark an anniversary, celebrate a life.

Hear Founder talk with Jenni Murray and Emma Freud on and talk to Dani Maimone on  at the launch of Clandon Wood Natural Burial Reserve.

See a whistle-stop tour, a one-minute guide to Final Fling with Barbara telling how she uses the site.

Our values

We do bold, spirited, creative, pragmatic. (We don’t do mawkish, maudlin, macabre.) We’re empowering. We embrace death as a natural counterpoint to life. We promote openness: think, talk, share. We promote personalisation and choice: ‘I did it my way’. We promote taking control and having peace of mind. We aim to put‘rich’ back into ‘ritual’.

Our backstory

Final Fling launched in April 2012. We chanced our arm in BBC’s Dragons Den in June that year. Boy they hated us! Barbara Chalmers replied to Deborah Meaden’s “it’ll never work” with a quiet “we’ll see about that…”

AWARDS

AWARDS

“Best new website” ***** 5 star rated, Web User Magazine, 2012 “Most Outstanding Contribution to Understanding Death in the Media” Good Funeral Guide, 2012