About Legacy Craft
Legacy Craft is a mortality doula service based on Dharug and Gundungurra Country in the Blue Mountains, NSW, offering compassionate, person-centered support through end-of-life, death and grief.
Founded by Samantha Curran, Legacy Craft grew from a lifelong curiosity about mortality and a deep desire to change the way we approach death and dying. Samantha’s own early experiences of loss, followed by professional experience in funeral care, led her to recognise that supporting people through death should encompass much more than what happens after someone dies. It can include the conversations, preparation, relationships, choices, rituals and experiences that happen before, during and after death.
As a trained mortality doula, Samantha offers a calm and empathetic presence alongside practical knowledge and creative approaches to death care. Her training includes End-of-Life Doula training with Preparing the Way, Deathwalker training with Zenith Virago, and Midwifing Death with palliative care doctor Dr Michael Barbato. She also brings experience from working in funeral homes, involvement with the Blue Mountains Death Café community, grief writing facilitation, and a background as a published author and award-winning artist.
At the heart of Legacy Craft is the belief that there is no single ‘right’ way to experience death, grief or a farewell. Every person has their own story, relationships, beliefs and wishes. Whether someone is preparing for their own death, supporting a loved one, navigating grief, or looking for a more personal way to honour someone who has died, Legacy Craft creates space to explore what matters most.
Capturing and honouring your legacy, your way.
Our Mission
Legacy Craft was born from years of yearning for a better practice around end-of-life and death care.
At Legacy Craft, our mission is to make space for more compassionate, personal and meaningful experiences of death and dying.
We support individuals, families and communities through end-of-life, death and grief with calm presence, practical guidance, thoughtful conversation and personalised rituals. We believe that dying is more than a medical event. It is a deeply human experience that deserves dignity, choice, connection and care.
Through legacy work, end-of-life planning, education, after-death care and grief support, we help people feel informed, empowered and truly seen during some of the most difficult times. We honour each person’s story, values and wishes, creating opportunities to connect, celebrate, prepare and say goodbye in ways that feel authentic to them.
Our mission is simple: to walk alongside people through one of life’s most profound transitions, ensuring that no one has to navigate it alone.
Why choose Legacy Craft?
A human approach to death and dying
Death can feel overwhelming, unfamiliar and difficult to talk about. Legacy Craft offers a calm, compassionate space where questions, emotions and difficult conversations can be welcomed without judgement.
Your wishes, your way
There is no single right way to experience death, create a farewell or remember someone. Your beliefs, relationships, personality and wishes are at the heart of the process. Legacy Craft helps you explore your options and make choices that feel authentic to you.
Support beyond the medical
Dying is more than a medical event. There are practical decisions to make, relationships to nurture, stories to tell, memories to capture and goodbyes to prepare for. Legacy Craft provides non-medical support alongside the care already being provided by health and other professionals.
Meaningful moments matter
From a living wake to legacy capturing, personalised rituals, funeral planning or simply creating space for an important conversation, small and meaningful moments can have a lasting impact.
Compassionate presence
Sometimes you don't need someone to have all the answers. You need someone who can sit beside you, listen, help you find your way and hold space for whatever comes next.
Legacy Craft is here to walk alongside you with warmth, creativity, practical knowledge and genuine care.
Our Values
Compassion
Meeting people with warmth, empathy and without judgement.
Dignity
Honouring each person's humanity, individuality and wishes.
Choice
Helping people understand their options so they can make informed decisions about their own death and farewell.
Connection
Creating opportunities for meaningful conversations, relationships, love and goodbye.
Creativity
Recognising that death care doesn't have to look the same for everyone.
Presence
Being there — calmly, genuinely and without trying to fix what cannot be fixed.
Legacy
Helping people capture, preserve and honour the stories, memories, values and relationships that make a life meaningful.s and relationships that make a life meaningful.
Samantha’s Story
As a young child, I was faced with many deaths. The first loss I experienced was my Grandfather, whom I loved immensely. He died in 2001 when I was seven years old. In that same year, I also lost two Great-Grandparents, witnessed my brother live through a life-threatening illness at age four, and lost my first pet unexpectedly. I was faced with mortality at a formative age, and since then, I have been intrigued with mortality, death and grief. After many years of wanting to work in the funeral industry, I got my first job as a Funeral Director’s Assistant in 2023. Once I was finally in the industry, it felt incredibly affirming to realise that I could do this work, as it’s something you can only understand when you’re faced with death and grief in new and intimate ways. After a couple of years, I realised that I wanted to be involved in the whole end-of-life and death process, rather than the ‘after’. I yearned to be involved in the education, conversation, support and experience holistically.
Training and Experience:
End-of-Life Doula training with Preparing The Way (Certificate of Completion)
Midwifing Death by Dr Michael Barbato (Certificate of Completion)
National Association of Loss and Grief: Workshop 1: Tiny Lives, Lasting Love: Understanding Pregnancy & Infant Loss (Certificate of Completion)
Member of the Blue Mountains Death Café Team
Professional working experience in funeral homes
Member of National Death Advocacy Network
Grief Writing Workshop (Blue Mountains) Host, 2025
Published author and award-winning artist