by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 25, 2015 | Funerals
Yesterday’s post talked about the simplicity of deciding your body’s fate after death, with only three real options: burial, cremation, and body donation. But as our vast and seemingly unlimited world is wont to do, even body donation has its options. Ever...
by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 24, 2015 | Body donation, Burial, Cremation, Funerals
Burial. Cremation. Body donation. Those are the three options available for your post-life body. This is an easy place to start for getting your parting wishes down on paper. Don’t make your family guess, struggle to remember, or possibly argue over what they...
by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 22, 2015 | Caitlin Doughty, Cremation, Death, Funerals
I love spreading the word about Caitlin Doughty, a Los Angeles mortician, who has a website The Order of the Good Death, a video series, Ask a Mortician, and a new book, Smoke Gets in the Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory. She’s a little (or a...
by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 21, 2015 | Funerals
I just got home from seeing American Sniper. So many feelings. Can’t not contemplate life, and death, vulnerability, fate. Even thinking “I Want a Fun Funeral” seems impossibly wrong. There’s nothing amiss with my mission of better funerals,...
by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 20, 2015 | alternative containers, Caskets, Cremation, FTC Funeral Rule, Funerals, Preplanning your funeral
Have you ever thought about the expenses incurred for funerals, and whether they accurately reflected your values? We’re so averse to seeming disrespectful, or thinking that money shouldn’t matter at a time like this, or just plain wanting someone else to...
