by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 12, 2020 | How to Plan
There’s a funeral on the horizon. Well, there’s always a funeral on the horizon, but let’s say it’s imminent or expected. You like the idea of Taking It Up a Notch, but just don’t see any big, obvious way to do it. There’s no...
by Kyle Tevlin | Oct 8, 2020 | Event, I Want a Fun Funeral
Just in time for Halloween… the 4th Annual Before I Die New Mexico (Virtual) Festival. Yes, it’s 1910 miles away, but one of the upsides of the pandemic is that with Zoom geography is no obstacle. Which is why I was invited by my friend and End-of-Life colleague...
by Kyle Tevlin | Sep 10, 2020 | I Want a Fun Funeral, Life celebration, Planning your own funerals
It really isn’t hard thinking about what you want. What makes you smile? What makes you happy? What’s important to you? If you remember anything, let it be this. For your very own goodbye party, you don’t have to do:• what’s always been done•...
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...
