Funeral Pre-Planning
We spend a lifetime being individual, why become the same in death?
Most funerals aren't designed. They're defaulted.
Families make 40+ decisions in 48 hours when someone dies. Planning your funeral won't prepare you for death, but it will clarify how you live.
○ Unresolved death anxiety is one of the leading drivers of stress, depression and low life satisfaction. People who plan for death live measurably better.
○ People who've clarified their end-of-life wishes report feeling less anxious, more present, and more intentional about the life they're living now.
○ 67% of funerals default to a standard package. Not because families didn't care, because no one had the conversation.
Tier 1 - DIY Pre-Planning
£195 one-time payment
Record who you are and how you want to be remembered.
✓ Funeral Personality Quiz (free)
✓ Access to the Cafe Mortel platform (under development)
✓ Personalised digital blueprint of your last wishes
✓ Full DIY pre-planning tools to document and store your wishes
✓ Not a legal document — a personal record and the foundation for everything above
Tier 2 - Guided Pre-Planning
from £1200
Your wishes, formalised and legally protected.
✓ Everything in Tier 1, including platform access
✓ 90-minute 1:1 with one of our strategists
✓ Legalised document valid to sit alongside your will
✓ Covers funeral wishes, values, and the ceremony you want
✓ Full affairs documentation — estate, finances, digital assets, passwords, crypto and instructions for everything you leave behind.
Tier 3 - Creative Direction
from £3,500
Your funeral, conceived and designed by Cafe Mortel
✓ Everything in Tier 2, including legalisation and full affairs documentation
✓ Full creative concept development
✓ Granular production design proposal — venue, styling, atmosphere, music, narrative
✓ Every element of your ceremony considered and documented
✓ Option to experience it as a Living Funeral now
✓ Option to commission a lasting legacy piece – Memorial Art
What comes next, quoted separately:
Ceremony production — £2,500 + 18% of total production budget
Cremation/Burial — £1,750+
The average UK funeral costs £4,500. Most of that pays for a ceremony no one designed.
You can decide differently, while you're still here.