I Want A Fun Funeral Blog
Store-bought expenses or homemade?
I've long had a theory that the less $$ you spend on a goodbye, the better it might be. It's so easy to just buy stuff as a way to either mollify your grief, assuage any guilt you might have, or just as a way to feel like you're doing the right thing, somehow. You're...
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Plan Your Own… a Poem
Animals saying goodbye
Touching and convincing STORY on why pets should have a place in your goodbye plans! Dog's owner dies suddenly, dog doesn't eat or sleep for ten days, exhibits all the canine-applicable signs of grief. Dog goes to the funeral home, peers into the casket, goes home,...
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Pro & Con Game • Part 3
Make you own funeral rules
A new widow was so tired of her family members telling her that her deceased husband was in a better place, that she posted this sign at the funeral. We have so much power to design our goodbyes. If there's something you feel strongly about… don't hold back. ...
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PRO & CON Game • Part 2
Keeping the laughs alive
Recycling this from a couple of years ago because it still makes me laugh.
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PRO & CON Game • Part 1
A paragon of I Want a Fun Funeral
There's nothing I can say to improve this. CHECK OUT this incredible program for a funeral. Note that “Although you may feel unsure coming into this setting, be sure that Karen designed this night herself… She wanted all her friends and family to remember the good...
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Fame and glory in the I Want a Fun Funeral book — I’m inviting YOU
Be in my I Want a Fun Funeral book! It only makes sense, in a bestseller titled I Want a Fun Funeral, that it would include an abundance of examples, correct? Correctamundo. Examples of specific requests or ideas you wonderful people have for your own creative...
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Little Fun Funeral Announcement
https://youtu.be/YlG9gHhjUUA
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Fun Funeral Recreation
And now for something completely different. When Life's been wearing on you and you just can't take one more philosophical, existential thought about it… play a game. Which is in total keeping with the I Want a Fun Funeral approach to life and death. Find 20 words...
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Keister-Kicking, How to Prevent
For the second day in a row today, I was way overdressed for my lunchtime jog. I couldn't quite believe one layer would suffice, so I went the safe route, bundled up, and felt like a granny as lean bare legs whizzed by me in shorts, gosh darn it. I wanted to be in...
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Prepare to be unprepared
“It's been a whirlwind of activity getting ready for funeral on Friday. You’re never really prepared even when you know it’s coming.” I got this in an email from a friend the other day. It was an older family member… not tragic in any way, and not even unexpected, as...
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Green Burial FAQs
Whether you knew it or not, perhaps you have some questions about green burial. Count me as a fan; I always want to spread the word. Below, from the Green Burial Council, which is the environmental certification organization setting the standard for green burial in...
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Score one for memories and celebration
Can't resist sharing this since I live just outside Philadelphia, where the recent Super Bowl win is a bit of a big deal. I'm not pushing the wonderfulness of Philadelphia Eagles fans. I'm highlighting that our passing deserves great fanfare (no pun intended). We are...
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