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...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 6, 2019 | FTC Funeral Rule, funeral costs
Low sexiness factor, high practicality factor… Shopping for funeral services. As I’ve said in many posts, the prices of funeral services vary incredibly — by thousands of dollars for the same services. This is no joke or exaggeration. We need to shop around when...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jun 4, 2019 | Event, Funeral Revolution, Personalized funeral
Look alive, local people. If you’ve ever been disappointed by a funeral / left feeling empty / completely forgotten every detail / reluctantly went through the motions / fill-in-your-worst funeral moment / …then you need to come hear this. We’re talking...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 12, 2019 | human composting, Uncategorized
For those of us following the new-fangled world of funeral offerings these days, the latest wonderment — human composting — is set to be legalized in Washington State, pending the governor’s signature. Simply put, it’s the “natural organic reduction” of a...
