by Kyle Tevlin | Jun 17, 2016 | Acceptance of death, Death, Uncategorized
A horrible, soul-crushing week of violence and loss: three awful and shocking tragedies in Orlando, and then just this afternoon the killing of the UK lawmaker. So much death and sadness. Horror. Pain. No way to really take it all in. Virtually all of these senseless...
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 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...
