Louise Brown, born in London in 1975, moved with her family to East Holstein in northern Germany as a teenager. She studied political science in northern England, Kiel and Berlin. She is a journalist and has also been a funeral orator in Hamburg for several years, where she facilitates the first ›Death Café‹. In her podcast My Perfect Burial she talks to people about how they want to say their goodbyes. Louise Brown lives in Hamburg with her partner, two children and a dog.