ABOUT US
The people behind
every farewell we hold
Rite of Passage Funerals is an independent, female-owned funeral director based on the Gold Coast. Founded in 2018 by Yasemin Trollope, our intention is to create end-of-life services that are modern, beautiful, and as individual as the people they honour.
HOW RITE OF PASSAGE FUNERALS BEGAN
In 2015, Yasemin's mother had a severe allergic reaction to chemotherapy treatment and was rushed to the ICU. In the waiting room, frightened, uncertain, and searching for something to hold onto, Yasemin found herself thinking about what would happen if the worst came to pass. What options were available? Who would guide them through it? What would it look like?
What she found when she started looking didn't match what she felt the moment deserved. The industry she encountered was functional, but formulaic; short on personality, shorter on warmth. There was nothing that felt like them. Nothing that felt like it could hold the full weight of a life.
Her mother pulled through. She is, thankfully, very much still here. But that waiting room stayed with Yasemin, and what began as a frightening hypothetical became a calling she couldn't ignore.
She trained as a funeral celebrant and funeral director, moved to the Gold Coast, and in 2018 founded Rite of Passage Funerals with a simple, firm belief: that a farewell should be as individual and as carefully considered as the person it honours.
MEET YASEMIN