by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 9, 2020 | inspiring, Legacy, Life celebration, Planning your own funerals
There’s a promising new resource in the End-of-Life world! As featured in the article Boom Time for Death Planning in The New York Times on July 16, 2020, it’s called Near. Explaining the name, they say ”While others may move away from the conversation...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jun 14, 2020 | Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Take It Up a Notch
Forget what you know about funerals. If there were no normal funeral custom already existing, and a beloved person in your life died, what would you rather do—Roll up your sleeves and do something in their honor, or go sit in some chairs somewhere, following awkward,...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 10, 2020 | Life celebration, pandemic, Take It Up a Notch
Hello Fellow Quarantined Humans,Does anyone need another voice saying “Crazy, scary times!”?I know I don’t. I actually don’t even want to hear myself think anymore.But avoiding it is futile. You might as well try hugging your neighbors.My heart goes out to everyone in...
by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 5, 2020 | Acceptance of death, pandemic
After a few hopeless starts for this blog post, I’m leaving it at this: Make friends with “I don’t know.” Like good, good friends. BFFs. Throw a Welcome Party for uncertainty. And try to take in, deep in your bones, that all of this stuff in our lives is a...
by Kyle Tevlin | Mar 8, 2020 | alternative containers, Burial, Personalized funeral
A heartbreaking story in Kentucky of a mom and her 12-year-old daughter killed in a car crash. And buried together in the same casket. It doesn’t make the tragedy easier to bear, but it provides just a tad bit of relief from the darkness. It’s another...
by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 7, 2020 | Caskets, Life celebration
Glitter caskets, people! Not for your average corpse: What says Inhabitant Loved Life!! more than a crazy shiny, glittery box for eternity? And that, in a glittery nutshell, is why I love them. The photo is from the collection of The Glitter Coffin Company based in...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 12, 2020 | I Want a Fun Funeral, Legacy, Take It Up a Notch
Happy 2020! New Year’s seems like weeks ago already. How is that possible? It seems unanimous that time is flying faster than ever. With a new year, and a new decade to boot, comes new perspectives. What’s disguising itself as a perspective, for me, is more an...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 7, 2019 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Loss
I think about death a lot. But unlike funerals directors or healthcare workers, for me it’s mostly theoretical. I’m fascinated by the dichotomy we live in: Knowing we aren’t immortal, yet mainly living in denial of it. It seems to me that if we...
by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 6, 2019 | Life celebration
I Want a Fun Funeral is ever evolving, my friends. Chalk it up to my own revelations about life and death and how we relate to it, as well as the seismic shifts that are going on in the actual funeral industry. One of my bugaboos has always been the cost of funerals....
