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....
by Kyle Tevlin | Oct 6, 2019 | Cremation, Urns
I love new offerings for what to do with our deceased bodies, and this latest one is solid. Literally. It’s stones instead of ashes after cremation. Or rather, stones from ashes. Parting Stone has developed a process of turning cremains (aka ashes) into smooth and...
by Kyle Tevlin | Sep 5, 2019 | Cemeteries
There’s more to funeral innovation than better experiences, even though that is what I am usually harping on. In fact, the seed that led to I Want a Fun Funeral was an exasperating incredulity that funeral homes themselves are still so stodgy looking,...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 4, 2019 | Acceptance of death, Planning your own funerals, Preplanning your funeral
Article in this week’s Time magazine about collecting all your end of life paperwork. This is the practical end of I Want a Fun Funeral. You can’t pull off the goodbye you want without leaving instructions for it. The list of what would ideally be in this...
