About Funeral Commons

Olivia Andrews is the founder and director of Funeral Commons and a member of its Advisory Board. Based in Sydney's Inner West, she is a funeral director and celebrant, and a PACFA Clinical Registrant specialising in palliative and bereavement psychotherapy.

Her work brings together funeral care, therapeutic support and ceremony. Olivia helps families understand their options and participate in ways that feel right for them. She creates and leads secular ceremonies and can also arrange services of any denomination, working respectfully with clergy and faith communities.

Alongside Funeral Commons, Olivia founded Llumus Care, where she provides counselling and psychotherapy for people experiencing serious illness, dying, grief and major life transitions. She is also trained as an end-of-life doula.

Since 2022, Olivia has worked with the Sacred Heart Community Palliative Care Biography Service at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney as a volunteer biographer and former Co-Manager, supporting people receiving palliative care to reflect on and preserve their life stories.

Danni Petkovic is a death literacy educator, mortality doula and founder of Liminal Being. Her work sits with people as they are dying, and with the people who love them, creating space for the conversations, memories and rituals that matter most before it is too late to have them.

Danni believes death is a natural part of life and a profound human experience, not a medical failure. Modern healthcare, however, can shift the focus from comfort and peace to ongoing tests and treatments. For this reason, her work extends to teaching medical and creative therapy students to engage with death as a human experience. She also volunteers at Bear Cottage Children's Hospice and holds a stewardship role with the Good Death Impact Network.

Danni believes Funeral Commons offers something Australia needs: transparent pricing, natural burial and a commitment to reinvest the majority of profits into care rather than shareholders. She is part of Funeral Commons because death literacy and access go together.