by Kyle Tevlin | Sep 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Kyle Tevlin | Sep 2, 2016 | Classes, Planning your own funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
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....
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 26, 2016 | Planning your own funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
I always tell the amazing fun funeral planners in my workshops that writing down what you want is essential. I even mention it to strangers sitting at a bar if we happen to get on the topic. Which if you’re me, is not a rare event. Chalk one up for my life, I...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sometimes your vision is crystal clear, such as the disco-ball-in-the-mausoleum-lover from a few posts’ ago. But other times it can be totally unobvious (not actually a word), yet there is something… just a gnawing little something, where you know that the...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 12, 2016 | Death, Funeral music, Uncategorized
Trivia! Do you know… The name of the theme music to the 1955-1965 show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents? “Funeral March Of A Marionette” written in 1872 by French composer Charles Gounod. According to Wikipedia, Hitchcock died on April 29, 1980, at 80 years old. His body...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 12, 2016 | Death, Funeral music, Uncategorized
Trivia! Do you know… The name of the theme music to the 1955-1965 show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents? “Funeral March Of A Marionette” written in 1872 by French composer Charles Gounod. According to Wikipedia, Hitchcock died on April 29, 1980, at 80 years old. His body...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 5, 2016 | Funny death, Life celebration
It’s late. Too late to write. Good thing it’s always a good time for a cartoon. This is a fave. http://www.thedoghousediaries.com
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 29, 2016 | Death, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral costs, Funerals, Life celebration, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
I understand that song “A Boy Named Sue.” Intimately. Though probably less violently because I’ve never had to crash a chair across someone’s teeth over it. Cheers to that! So when I met another middle-aged woman named Kyle — a first for me — it felt like...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 22, 2016 | Funeral music, Life celebration, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
Anyone else want a disco ball at their funeral? I met a woman last night who, upon hearing about my business, practically cut me off to tell me that she’s already told her husband she wants a disco ball at her funeral. Or more precisely, in her mausoleum....
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 14, 2016 | Death, Funerals, New Zealand, Personalized funeral, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
Here’s a little inspiration for you from the New Zealand Listener. A rhapsody of praise for the self-created, celebratory funeral from one Kevin Ireland. He and his wife decided, in their 70s and after attending one too many morbid funerals, that they wanted...
