by Kyle Tevlin | Jun 10, 2016 | Death, Funerals, Life celebration, Mourning, Uncategorized
I write with a bit of a heavy heart, on behalf of the losses of people I don’t even know. I drove by a local funeral home tonight that was so busy there had to a police presence on the road to keep traffic moving in and out. Two wakes there tonight—one for a 21...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jun 2, 2016 | Funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot about issue of knowing we should get our funeral plans done in advance, and even—halleluia!— actually wanting to, and still not getting around to it. And let’s face it, unless you have a terminal diagnosis or are pushing 90s,...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 27, 2016 | Personalized funeral, Pre-planning funeral, Uncategorized, Writing obituaries
Writing your own obituary ahead of time (hmmm, like there’s any other way?) is not for the faint of heart. Which I say only because it’s the one thing I haven’t yet been able to do, fearless-fun-funeral-planner that I otherwise am. But I think I have...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 20, 2016 | Funeral music, Funerals, Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Preplanning your funeral
“To a chorus of Mr Blue Sky, my wife was the star of her own show” Welcome to my favorite story yet, from a young widowed husband in the UK. His wife, who just recently died of cancer in her 40s, had this on her wish list for her funeral: “A live performance of ELO’s...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 13, 2016 | Funny death
