Your cheery after death action plan

The Bottom Drawer Book will help you prepare for the inevitable with quirky but practical tips and has lots of room for you to write your plans and requests.

This informative workbook guides you through things to consider with humour, like a religious funeral or celebration of life? Hymns or pop songs? Cremation, burial, or composting? A champagne wake or cordial and cake?

Now in its fourth edition and written by Aussie journalist Lisa Herbert, The Bottom Drawer Book will make things easier for your loved ones when the time does eventually come.

Don't take all your secrets to the grave

The Bottom Drawer Book helps you make note of your plans, ideas and life’s reflections, with handy worksheets that contain lots of practical information.

Covering things like how much to spend on your casket, what songs you’d like played, and which outfit you’ll be buried in, your wishes will sit quietly in the pages until they’re needed.

The Bottom Drawer Book takes a refreshing perspective on mortality and the ways we can say goodbye.

The Bottom Drawer Book: The After Death Action Plan

$29.95

The Bottom Drawer eBook: The After Death Action Plan

$11.99

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A quirky yet practical look at the inevitable

Written by journalist Lisa Joy Herbert and illustrated by Phil Judd, The Bottom Drawer Book is here to help answer your funeral planning questions and will allow your loved ones to grieve and celebrate the real you, knowing everything is just how you would have wanted it.

It’s your own personal guide for things like different types of burial, cremation, living wills, the digital afterlife, coffins and caskets, donating your body to science, themed funerals and their soundtrack, what to wear, the eulogy and the funeral itself, and even some bad puns and dad jokes.

Your responses to the questions and tasks in the book will become a memento of what’s important in your life – written in your handwriting, with your doodles, your humour, your ideas, and your personal reflections.

What people are saying about The Bottom Drawer Book

“It was so strange that when you appeared on TV. I was in the process of trying to write some sort of “instructions” in a notebook, and not doing a very good job of explaining what I wanted, and had no idea how I was going to get my husband to write anything at all. You solved the problem right away and I put down the pen and went to the computer to order”

“Our 22-year-old son is dying and while we have generally discussed his wishes, this book will make things easier. I have ordered 4 books for all the family so we can all sit down and fill in our books together so that our beautifully amazing son won’t be the only one making the hard decisions and we can make it light-hearted and fun. Thank you for making a difficult discussion so much easier.”

“I come from a family who discussed death as part of life and it is rare today. People freak out and think it is morbid. I am so pleased you are changing people’s thinking. Loved the idea of a cardboard coffin with pictures of loved ones on it. Must look into this.”