Supporting you to create a meaningful funeral by offering flexibility and choice at an affordable price. I cannot praise the team at Poetic Endings highly enough. They arranged a wonderful funeral for my dear wife, which was a perfect and moving celebration of a unique life. If you find yourself in a situation, like I was, where you need to quickly find a funeral director, you cannot go wrong with Poetic Endings.
The care and attention that I was given during such a difficult time was greatly appreciated. I am eternally grateful. With the support of our team of flexible and thoughtful funeral directors, you can organise a funeral that works for you, honours your loved one, and helps you move forward. Find out about our services and costs for traditional funerals, modern funerals and natural burials.
The care and attention that I was given during such a difficult time was greatly appreciated. I am eternally grateful. With the support of our team of flexible and thoughtful funeral directors, you can organise a funeral that works for you, honours your loved one, and helps you move forward. Find out about our services and costs for traditional funerals, modern funerals and natural burials.
Services
Poetic Endings is an award-winning, independent and ethical funeral service based in Forest Hill in London. We empower you to have the funeral that you want and need because we believe that good funerals are incredibly important. Poetic Endings is a different kind of funeral company. This isn't an inherited business or corporate group - we choose to do this because we believe in the power of funerals.
Our team is from diverse and creative backgrounds, and many people view us as a bespoke and boutique funeral service. It's this focus on the individual which allows us to create funerals that honour, heal, and inspire. Our team has over 10 years of experience in organising funerals. In that time we have continually brought new standards, options, and practices to the funeral industry.
We've put together a varied programme of events to help you to engage with death, dying, life and living. From funeral planning workshops to meetup groups and Death Cafes, we hope our events will support you to have a more empowered approach to death and dying, funerals and grief. In this online workshop, we'll go through everything you need to know about funerals.
Arranging a funeral can be overwhelming, so we've put together some helpful resources to inform and inspire you. This guide has been written to support you in having a more empowered approach to arranging a funeral at what can be an unsettling and uncertain time. Our funerals are our emotional legacy.
We offer a 24 hour service from our beautiful funeral home in Forest Hill, South East London. Poetic Endings is situated in the centre of leafy Forest Hill in South East London, although we can help you with a funeral anywhere in London and beyond. If you'd like to visit us, please contact us to make an appointment in advance so we can give you our full attention.
Reviews (11)
Elena Procopiu
Nov 25, 2021
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I'm going to struggle to put into words how amazing Joanna and the team were but I'm going to try. From the very first phone call, I was totally reassured that everything would be taken care of - everything was totally transparent from the very beginning. I was overwhelmed by the sensitivity and care that was taken and the actual service itself surpassed my expectations completely. The space we decided on was made utterly beautiful (very different to the abattoir-esque experience I've had before) - the celebrant, Sophie Duvall, that we were matched made it her business to talk to everyone and get
Melanie
Sep 26, 2021
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It’s a shame there are only 5 stars. During what has been an incredibly difficult time since my father’s passing Poetic Endings made arranging his funeral easy. They took care of everything allowing me to concentrate on the personal touches, the details that reminded me of my father and the things that would enable me to say goodbye exactly the way I wanted to. Communication was regular, clear and sensitive to the circumstances throughout the entire process. Clare made herself available at anytime. Any and all queries were swiftly responded to. I made quite a late request for a personalised
Kamala Malden
Sep 01, 2021
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Poetic endings is a funeral company run by lovely professional ladies, who created the beautifully simple but very personal and empathetic funeral that I had requested .They guided through all the formalities making the process stress free and leaving us to concentrate on our feelings. They were always available , punctual , compassionate and professional. They took care to accommodate our non-standard requests and provided an amazing service celebrant and took care of the floral arrangements.
I am so glad I found them and would 100% recommend them.
I am so glad I found them and would 100% recommend them.
Julie W.
Jul 22, 2021
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Louise helped me to arrange a funeral for my lovely mum when she died suddenly in June 2021. We were totally shocked and didn't know what to do, having never arranged a funeral before. Louise guided us through the options and made sure we understood what was happening. We had a lovely funeral for my mum with a celebrant, who really captured the essence of my mum. If you find yourself needing a funeral director, I can't recommend Poetic Endings highly enough.
Margaret Luyombya
Jun 30, 2021
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Amy Larkin
May 22, 2021
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Louise Winter from Poetic Endings furnished us with all the information we needed to create a fitting send off for Dad. Not only is she calm, gentle, efficient, honest, professional and knowledgeable, she also held my hand through the whole process, making herself available late into the night and on weekends, when I needed answers to the most random of queries. Putting a funeral together certainly isn’t a 9-5 job! She was also my cheerleader as I put so much work in to the funeral, always telling me how well I was doing, which didn't go unnoticed, thank you, Louise. Everything went perfectly
Sally Marten
May 17, 2021
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The is not many words I could say how amazing this company that arranged my mums funeral yesterday , from the moment I see the name poetic-endings in google , I knew and it straight away ,and almost 11 pm it said 24 hrs call , I couldn’t believe it when Clare answered her phone that time of not and was so sympathetic of the sudden death of my dear mum , Clare promised there was no hidden costs ( I was advised to shop around and check package deals) and when I asked what was included in the package deals , Clare replied we don’t do package deals , each funeral is a unique and bespoke to our
Nana
Feb 26, 2021
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I sadly lost my cousin Clinton from cancer and fungal infection. It was a very sad and difficult time for the whole family as we lost the youngest member of the family in the first week on 2021. Planning a funeral was going to be another challenge but after several researches I found Poetic Endings. Louise from Poetic Endings was a God sent. Going through a had time and planning a funeral was a very difficult thing to do but after speaking with Louise, we were assured everything will go smoothly. Louise is a kind lady, caring, helpful, comforting and very understanding,I cannot praise Louise and
Joseph Smyth
Dec 26, 2020
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I cannot praise Poetic Endings Funerals highly enough. In particular Joanna worked with our family with such calm professionalism at such a challenging time it made organizing our mum's final journey doable at a time when so much wasn't. Thanks to poetic endings we were able to say goodbye properly and celebrate the life we had lost. Thank you all.
Charlotte Hammerbeck
Aug 22, 2020
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Copying and pasting my letter to Louise. I highly, highly recommend this kind, thoughtful team of people to help you when you have lost a loved one.
Dear Louise
I wanted to write and say once more how pleased we were that we chose you and the Poetic Endings team to help us say goodbye to our beloved Henry.
From the moment we picked up the phone to speak to you, in a state of total distress and bewilderment, you were kindness personified. You quickly reassured us and made us see that with your support and guidance, we would be able to create something which was befitting him, and did him proud
Dear Louise
I wanted to write and say once more how pleased we were that we chose you and the Poetic Endings team to help us say goodbye to our beloved Henry.
From the moment we picked up the phone to speak to you, in a state of total distress and bewilderment, you were kindness personified. You quickly reassured us and made us see that with your support and guidance, we would be able to create something which was befitting him, and did him proud
Alex Heylin
Jun 22, 2019
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