I’m Tom, and I’ve been a humanist funeral celebrant for about nine years. It’s been both a privilege and personally fulfilling to engage with people in order to find the best way of celebrating individual lives in all their variety. Most of my professional life has been in adult education of different kinds, and thinking about learning across the full life course has led me to appreciate the challenges involved in different transitions. This includes death and dying, and what these mean for different people. I try to get a sense of what each individual has really meant to their family and friends, and how we should together design a ceremony to reflect this.
I live in North London, am married to Prue, and keep trying to improve my clarinet-playing.