I Want A Fun Funeral Blog
Life Celebration
Let’s Raise the Bar
Funeral director love
This may be a first, and I realize now, also long overdue. I'm a huge fan of home funerals, how (in some states) you don't need a funeral director for any part of it. I've shared a number of ways that a family member can do some of the 'jobs' that a funeral director...
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Be the change.
Engage. Participate. BE the transformation in our goodbyes. BE the engaged creator in whatever Goodbye you have the honor of being part of, because an honor it is.
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I’m Here to Help
Fun Funeral planners! aka Ordinary People Who Don't Want Another Drab, Useless Funeral, This is about creativity. There is no One-Size Fits All in the department of personalized send-offs. How personalized would it be if it were following a template, or known...
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I Want a Fun Funeral Manifesto
Celebrate Garrett and LONG LIVE his wise and funny legacy
I know I already wrote about this unconventional funeral, but since then I've found this video the family made. It is so darn inspiring! If the parents of sweet 5 year-old Garrett Matthias can choose celebration over sadness after his death… it is just more proof that...
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Another vote for focusing on LIFE
This article by Erica Buist from The Guardian says so well what I Want a Fun Funeral is so much about. I'm not sure I ever articulated this point even to myself, but boy does it get to the heart of the matter: “We don’t want to trivialise the loss, but why not...
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Feelings about funerals MATTER
Can never go wrong with ice cream
How about revisiting this one from a couple years back. It involves ice cream, which on a hot (but lovely) summer night, is always inspiring. Ice Cream...
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What’s not to love about volunteering?
A couple weeks back I talked about the concept of designating items for people to donate in your honor, based on the inspiring story from the teacher who requested filled backpacks for her students at her funeral. To highlight the beauty of this, they placed one...
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“The things I love the most”
Like hundreds of others around the world, I am compelled to share the story of little Garrett Matthias, who left some awesome last wishes before leaving this life, much too young, at age five. I listened to a TV interview with his parents, who through their tears...
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Put some requests into your last wishes!
I'm going to use the blog today to brainstorm some ideas I've been having. I was so influenced by the story in last week's blog — the teacher who left behind a request for filled backpacks to be donated in lieu of flowers, that I wonder if hosting a little workshop...
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Legacy made easy
A beautiful, real-life example of one of my favorite I Want a Fun Funeral ideas: This request by a teacher for people to donate backpacks filled with school supplies instead of flowers at her funeral. You don't need to ‘know’ you're dying to make this request. This is...
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“Come on in,” she said. “There’s lots of food. And a coffin that people are decorating.” If you find that enticing, liberating, intriguing, or best of off, life a breath of fresh air… you've come to the right place. Read: The Positive Death Movement Comes to Life The...
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Funeral as Lifetime Achievement Award
A funeral could be compared to a person's Lifetime Achievement Award. It should be that big, that celebratory, that filled with respect and gratitude for the difference a person has made. And if that person is YOU, don't you want to say “Thank you!”? …Just one reason...
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