I Want A Fun Funeral Blog
Prepare to be unprepared
“It's been a whirlwind of activity getting ready for funeral on Friday. You’re never really prepared even when you know it’s coming.” I got this in an email from a friend the other day. It was an older family member… not tragic in any way, and not even unexpected, as...
Green Burial FAQs
Whether you knew it or not, perhaps you have some questions about green burial. Count me as a fan; I always want to spread the word. Below, from the Green Burial Council, which is the environmental certification organization setting the standard for green burial in...
Score one for memories and celebration
Can't resist sharing this since I live just outside Philadelphia, where the recent Super Bowl win is a bit of a big deal. I'm not pushing the wonderfulness of Philadelphia Eagles fans. I'm highlighting that our passing deserves great fanfare (no pun intended). We are...
We All Deserve
The more (of it you do yourselves) the merrier
People have a hard time wrapping their heads around a whole new way of doing funerals. They catch on quick to celebrating over being morbid, or telling happy stories instead of just crying. And as I describe my crusade for planning YOUR OWN in advance, people assume...
Celebrate, they say. Celebrate.
This week, it's a guest post from Beautiful Tribute, a company (from across the pond, no less) offering free online memorials (to people from anywhere, pond or no pond). ‘A Vote for the Fun Ways to Truly Celebrate a Life Well Lived’ by Victoria Bates Beautiful Tribute...
Folks jumping on the bandwagon
Check it out. https://woollymag.com/culture/throwing-your-own-afterlife-party.html A really, really sweet and funny article about better goodbyes!! Can I get a Hallelujah?! It was great fun talking to the author, Abby Sher, who is clearly both very funny and very...
“I’m more terrified by the thought of having a boring funeral”
“Planning your funeral should be a priority and to prove why, here’s my plan” Actual headline of an article by a well-known (I think) British broadcaster, producer, director and columnist, Jasmine Dotiwala. It's not that it's a famous person saying it (except that she...
Going local
In honor of being in Parkesburg, PA today (lunch and a flight at Victory Brewing Company), a tweet from Caleb Wilde (the wildly famous [along the like-minded] funeral director in town) of Wilde Funeral Home.
ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES to remember someone
It's Christmas and we're all scrambling, so I went to my posts from last December to see if I could just repost a blog. And lo and behold, I am able to steal the idea with a new twist. In the spirit of remembering the people in our lives who are no longer with us, I...
Joyful, crazy goodbye
Boas and tutus. By request from the music loving and always dancing 40-year old mom/wife/daughter/friend planning her own goodbye party. Determined to not leave her young daughter with an experience and memory of overwhelming sadness, she called for lots of...
More on green burial, ’cause we just can’t get enough
By way of Green Burial Naturally (producer of the incredible resource, The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide, State-By-State Where, How and Why to Choose Green Burial) Facebook page, I found a related post about the ever-popular (or striving to be) cardboard coffins. If...
The Good, the Bad, and the Wax Figure
I had a lively, in-person, fun-funeral-planning gathering this week in someone's home, complete with wine, brownies, and a roaring, crackling fire going in the den. We narrowly averted a couple of accidental cremations, but that can happen when you're living on the...
Happy Thanksgiving
It’s confirmed, we want LIFE in our last wishes
Of course I'm preaching to the choir again, but I can't help sharing signs of how much our funeral wishes are changing. It's almost nonexistent that someone says they want a sad, somber send-off. (Which is what we grew up with — we all know this kind of funeral.)...
