by Kyle Tevlin | Jun 1, 2017 | Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Planning your own funerals, Preplanning your funeral
Acknowledgement to Mary Oliver The Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 26, 2017 | Life celebration, Planning your own funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
Greetings fun funeral fans! New Insight Thursday and confirmation of how the circle of life is so encompassing. It’s magnificent how nothing occurs in a vacuum; any given action can be a boon to something seemingly unrelated. Existing Observation: A side effect...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 18, 2017 | Acceptance of death, alternative containers, columbarium, Cremains, Life celebration, niches for cremains
To counteract last week’s gloomy post, we’re going to the other end of the spectrum today: Color! Tie-dye! Hippie culture! A 1960s Volkswagon bus turned into a columbarium. (Columbarium – a room or building with niches for funeral urns to be stored.)...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 11, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Loss, sadness
When you just can’t… • Think about funerals and fun in the same sentence • Stomach that there’s anything lighthearted about death • Muster an ounce of interest in reflecting on your mortality • Find a reason to celebrate anything at the end of a life • Feel anything...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 5, 2017 | Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Planning your own funerals, Preplanning your funeral
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by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 28, 2017 | funeral costs, Life celebration
Returning to the confessional for True Confession #3. It can be darn hard putting forth my conviction that: Spending a lot of money on funeral merchandise (casket, urn, services, etc.) is not an indication of how much you loved someone. On a surface level,...
by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 21, 2017 | Funny death, Writing obituaries
I did not come up with this, but it does make me laugh.
by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 14, 2017 | Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Planning your own funerals, Preplanning your funeral
Nobody… okay, maybe .5 person per 1000 people, wants to plan their own funeral. But suppose it were a more popular project. Chances are one of the first questions would be “Where do I even begin?” And right now we’re just talking about the service. I already...
by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 7, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Loss
Time for another True Confession. And this one will seem so loony that I can only laugh while I tremble to admit it. Loony because it’s so dang obvious. So seemingly innocuous. Death is normal. Yup, that’s a statement I often find impossible to spit...
by Kyle Tevlin | Mar 31, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Loss
Exactly what motivates one to look up a fun funeral website? You handful of people who come here — are you already sold on the notion of something out-of-the-box, as the pun goes? Are you already picturing laughter, embarrassing stories, a night of bittersweet toasts...
