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Conversation 10 / Jenny Briscoe-Hough: doing death differently

with Jenny Briscoe-Hough, CEO Tender Funerals

What happens when you die, who decides, and can our bodies really ‘return to nature’? Do funerals have to be expensive?

Jenny Briscoe-Hough is an Australian social entrepreneur and community development advocate best known as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tender Funerals Australia. She has gained national recognition for challenging business-as-usual in the funeral sector by offering affordable, community-led, and highly personalised end-of-life care.

Hear how Jenny and Tender are shifting the culture of funerals to bring back death as part of life, and give back our connection to the people most important to us in their final hours and beyond.

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Jenny is the driving force behind Tender Funerals. She has decades of experience in community development and believes in a strengths-based approach. Jenny has a reputation for innovation and developing projects which support and empower communities to create a culture of help rather than harm. Tender Funerals is the result of a community believing that funerals should be an affordable, meaningful and ultimately as much as possible healing. Tender Funerals Australia was called into being by the many communities that reached out to have a Tender Funerals in their area and Jenny is proud to be a part of the team that is answering their call.