by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 10, 2022 | Acceptance of death, inspiring, Life celebration
This picture says it all to me. ALL. It’s pure celebration, as simple as it gets. And for that reason, I’m not going to muddy this message with analysis or pile on other examples of celebration. Sometimes simple is best. One can’t argue with pure....
by Kyle Tevlin | Oct 7, 2021 | Acceptance of death
It’s Fall… leaves are turning hundreds of beautiful shades from yellow to red. Time to be outdoors in the fresh air while we still can without bundling up in 16 layers. As those leaves are dying, we should, as always, be full-on LIVING! I get a little frantic...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 7, 2021 | Acceptance of death
Ever think about your own death? Not as an abstraction, but for real, as in turning in for the night and never waking up, or keeling over on the kitchen counter and being a goner just like that. I could get more graphic, but there’s really no reason for that!...
by Kyle Tevlin | Mar 10, 2021 | Acceptance of death, Funny death
Have you seen the new documentary on Netflix Dick Johnson is Dead? If you’re even glancing at a blog post on I Want a Fun Funeral, this has got to be right up your alley. 86-year old Dick Johnson has just begun a dementia decline, and his filmmaker daughter,...
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 | 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...
