I Want A Fun Funeral Blog
I’m Ready for My Closeup
In the Strange But True category, and more Hmm, that’s different… than Fun per se, here's an option for being more involved and engaged in the funeral process than you might have every pondered: The Assisted Family Dress Experience! This is when you go in the back...
Happy Thanksgiving to All
What qualities do Thanksgiving and I Want a Fun Funeral share? • It's about ABUNDANT celebrating — not having a snack, but a feast! And not just a meal, but an entire day! • Appreciating that life is finite. Some of our favorite people aren't at the table anymore. •...
Families, fun, funerals… make a meal of it
By this time next week, Thanksgiving dinner will be done, everyone stuffed, everyone hopefully still all speaking to one another. I often hear the suggestion among End-of-Life planning people that holidays are a good time to discuss your last wishes— good as in...
Seriously, I want to hear from you…
The world is changing (quite shockingly), and so is I Want a Fun Funeral. I want to make it even more fun. I want to make it even more palatable, even more comforting and comfortable, and I want it to be even more transformational. That was a lot of “I want”s in a...
Funny tweet (wish it were mine)
Tricks & Treats
It was an exciting week at I Want a Fun Funeral! First, on Sunday October 23, 2016 there was the article on the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer about my workshop. Thanks to an excellent reporter and photographer, anyone who couldn't quite imagine what the...
Tricks & Treats
It was an exciting week at I Want a Fun Funeral! First, on Sunday October 23, 2016 there was the article on the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer about my workshop. Thanks to an excellent reporter and photographer, anyone who couldn't quite imagine what the...
Fresh Air — Mine, not Terry Gross’s
“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.” Jack Benny It's the third week of October and I'm sitting outside on a 75° day, something I hadn't expected to do again until Spring. Lucky us, getting a couple...
Funerals, Money, and One Question
Reality Check: You may sincerely desire a funeral service that is not ostentatious or grand, yet it's easy by default to end up with more than you desired. Few among us are completely immune to the vulnerability of appearances. We may say/think/believe that...
Hold That Thought
My weekly blog post is a BUST tonight. Got some malware on my MacBookPro and can't really get anything done. Have a LIFE-FILLED week!! Hope to be back in action next week. Kyle, your Fun Funeral go-to-person.
Making Your Own Casket…more fun to be had, again
It's that time again. Another vote for the power of making your own casket courtesy of The Guardian. “Scores of retirees across the country have formed clubs so they can get together and build their own coffins.” “I had a deep-seated feeling that people’s journey’s...
I Want a Champagne Toast
A few words today about the “What do I care, I'll be dead” train of thought that some people favor as a way to avoid funeral talk. Fair enough, your absence from the event cannot be argued. However, the loose connection in that rationale is that your unavailability to...
Fun & Games
I Want a Fun Funeral loves all things fun, and games are particularly irresistible. How about a game called Morbid Curiosity that's after my own heart… for the sole purpose of making the topic of death easier to discuss, and having fun in the process. Since I missed...
Fun & Games
I Want a Fun Funeral loves all things fun, and games are particularly irresistible. How about a game called Morbid Curiosity that's after my own heart… for the sole purpose of making the topic of death easier to discuss, and having fun in the process. Since I missed...
Periodic Review of What the Heck I Do
I Want a Fun Funeral is about taking it up a notch, refusing to settle for a generic, boring funeral, and making sure your personality is in it! And this can only happen if you make some decisions in advance and write them down. And what *I, Kyle* do is teach you all...
Calling all local peeps!
Shameless Promotion Opportunity! As summer is unofficially coming to an end and we look ahead—whether reluctantly or excitedly—to the next season, here's what I Want a Fun Funeral has to offer for local folks. Hoping this goes in the “excitedly” category. I'm holding...