Meet Our End-of-Life Experts
Experts Alphabetically by Category G-O
Getting Your Affairs in Order After Death
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Green Burial
Samuel Perry, IN & IL Licensed Mortician
Death Care Educator
Green Burial Council
Sam is an Indiana and Illinois licensed funeral director, Lecturer of Mortuary Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is the current President of the GBC, 501(c)(3). He has a bachelor’s degree in Mortuary Science and a Masters of Education. Sam has experience in funeral homes, crematories, and coordinating the SIU anatomical gift program. In cooperation with the GBC, he also started the first in-person course on green funeral services for current and aspiring morticians.
Grief & Loss
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Grief & Loss
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Home Funerals & Natural Death Care
Heidi Boucher
Home Funeral Guide and Educator
Writer/Producer/Director
Since 1986, Heidi has supported families in Oregon and California choosing to care for their own dead, helping them create sacred, meaningful spaces to say goodbye. Guided by reverence, practicality, and beauty, she consults families on home death care while passionately advocating for personal choice in after-death rituals. Beyond this work, Heidi has an accomplished career in film, serving as producer, director, and production designer on several award-winning features. She wrote, produced, and directed In The Parlor: The Final Goodbye, a film exploring home death care, which continues to screen internationally alongside her talks and workshops.
Hospice and Palliative Care
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Intensive Care Unit
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Loss of a Child
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Low Cost Funeral Arrangements
Hank Williams
Vice President
Funeral Consumer Alliance North Carolina
Hank, a Graham, North Carolina resident, serves as Vice President of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of North Carolina (FCANC). One of 80 affiliates nationwide, the FCANC empowers consumers through education, promotes ethical practices, and ensures fair, affordable pricing for funeral goods and services. A retired military veteran, Hank also serves as Vice President of a local veterans’ nonprofit and is a strong advocate for veteran affairs. He regularly speaks to community groups about funeral planning and veterans’ issues and proudly supports the local Death Café, fostering open dialogue about death and end-of-life choices.
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Medical Aid in Dying
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Organ, Tissue & Whole Body Donation
Organ & Tissue Donation
Lacey Felder, MPH
Program Manager
Donate Life California
Lacey Felder, known as “Lucky Lacey,” received a heart transplant at 18 months old and a kidney from her brother in 2006. She began sharing her transplant story at age 8 and has spent over 12 years working in the donation and transplantation field. Now Program Manager at Donate Life California, Lacey continues her mission: to honor her donors by inspiring and educating Californians about organ, eye, and tissue donation as a personal, lifesaving decision.
Organ, Tissue & Whole Body Donation
Whole Body Donation
Brandi Schmitt, M.S.
Executive Director, Anatomical Services
UCOP, University of California Health
Brandi has served as Executive Director of Anatomical Services at the University of California, Office of the President, since May 2005 in Oakland, CA. She holds an M.S. in Forensic Science from the University of New Haven. Alongside her leadership role, Brandi has dedicated 16 years to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue unit, responding to missing persons cases, forensic investigations, accidents, and disasters. Her work reflects a strong commitment to both scientific excellence and humanitarian service in challenging and high-impact situations.