by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 21, 2017 | Holidays
It’s Christmas and we’re all scrambling, so I went to my posts from last December to see if I could just repost a blog. And lo and behold, I am able to steal the idea with a new twist. In the spirit of remembering the people in our lives who are no longer...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 15, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Personalized funeral
Boas and tutus. By request from the music loving and always dancing 40-year old mom/wife/daughter/friend planning her own goodbye party. Determined to not leave her young daughter with an experience and memory of overwhelming sadness, she called for lots of...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 8, 2017 | alternative containers, green burials
By way of Green Burial Naturally (producer of the incredible resource, The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide, State-By-State Where, How and Why to Choose Green Burial) Facebook page, I found a related post about the ever-popular (or striving to be) cardboard coffins. If...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 1, 2017 | Life celebration, Planning your own funerals, Unforuntate funeral experiences
I had a lively, in-person, fun-funeral-planning gathering this week in someone’s home, complete with wine, brownies, and a roaring, crackling fire going in the den. We narrowly averted a couple of accidental cremations, but that can happen when you’re...
by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 23, 2017 | Holidays
by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 16, 2017 | Life celebration, Planning your own funerals
Of course I’m preaching to the choir again, but I can’t help sharing signs of how much our funeral wishes are changing. It’s almost nonexistent that someone says they want a sad, somber send-off. (Which is what we grew up with — we all know this kind...
by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 9, 2017 | Cemeteries, Headstones, Humor
by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 2, 2017 | Burial, Cemeteries
Check this out, all you people who agree that death should include some life. This is a cemetery on an island in Venice, Isola di San Michele. Look at how beautiful it is! I’m not even a cemetery person, but this is just glorious. Read an interesting review of a...
by Kyle Tevlin | Oct 27, 2017 | Life celebration, Planning your own funerals, Preplanning your funeral
A better way to do funerals is to plan your own ahead of time. Planning your own funeral isn’t for the faint of heart. But what if it turns out that it’s actually heart-warming, healing, and hopeful? That an activity we dread could be the best move we never considered...
by Kyle Tevlin | Oct 19, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Mourning
I swear, the simplest things can pack the most punch. Three words and a whole scenario is set. The exclamation point packs its own wallop, underscoring that this isn’t a suggestion, but an insistence. (No Mourners Allowed!) We are making huge progress. People...
