by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 29, 2017 | Caleb Wilde, Funny death, Humor
In honor of being in Parkesburg, PA today (lunch and a flight at Victory Brewing Company), a tweet from Caleb Wilde (the wildly famous [along the like-minded] funeral director in town) of Wilde Funeral Home.
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 21, 2017 | Holidays
It’s Christmas and we’re all scrambling, so I went to my posts from last December to see if I could just repost a blog. And lo and behold, I am able to steal the idea with a new twist. In the spirit of remembering the people in our lives who are no longer...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 15, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Personalized funeral
Boas and tutus. By request from the music loving and always dancing 40-year old mom/wife/daughter/friend planning her own goodbye party. Determined to not leave her young daughter with an experience and memory of overwhelming sadness, she called for lots of...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 8, 2017 | alternative containers, green burials
By way of Green Burial Naturally (producer of the incredible resource, The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide, State-By-State Where, How and Why to Choose Green Burial) Facebook page, I found a related post about the ever-popular (or striving to be) cardboard coffins. If...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 1, 2017 | Life celebration, Planning your own funerals, Unforuntate funeral experiences
I had a lively, in-person, fun-funeral-planning gathering this week in someone’s home, complete with wine, brownies, and a roaring, crackling fire going in the den. We narrowly averted a couple of accidental cremations, but that can happen when you’re...
