About Mortal Me
Made by people who care, not a tech company.
Mortal Me was started by an end-of-life educator and is built by a technologist who takes your privacy seriously. Here’s who we are.
Founder
Donna Foster
End-of-life educator
Donna runs workshops that help people talk about death and dying. She created Mortal Me because a life shouldn’t be reduced to a list of assets in a will.
Her aim is to move the conversation from fear to empowerment, in plain language, at your own pace, and with a little humour along the way.
“We start with your life, not your assets!”
“I thought it would be heavy talking about this stuff, but you made it light and we loved the humour!”
Technical lead
Brennan Hatton
Technology and data security
Brennan leads the technology behind Mortal Me: how it’s built, how it’s kept running, and how your information is kept safe.
Brennan has spent more than a decade building immersive technology. He co-founded Equal Reality, whose VR inclusion training is used by organisations including Google, Amazon, the Mayo Clinic and the Royal Australian Navy, worked on AR headsets in Silicon Valley, and has been part of more than 100 AR, VR and AI projects.
- Everything you write is encrypted with a key of its own.
- Our team can never read your words.
- Your trusted people can read your plan, but never change it.
Real people, and an owl that’s definitely not AI.
A real person replies
Every email you send is read and answered by a member of the team.
Hints written by hand
Every hint from our owl was written by a person, never generated.
No chatbots
No AI and no automated scripts, anywhere.
Questions? Write to owl@mortalme.org
In partnership with
“Tackling Ageism Everywhere.”
The Ageing Revolution is a Hobart-based profit-for-purpose company working to change how older people are seen. Since 2015 it has run workshops, events and creative projects, from storytelling to the card game CarkedIt!, that put older people at the centre.