by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 22, 2018 | Acceptance of death
“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...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 15, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Personalized funeral
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...
by Kyle Tevlin | Oct 19, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Mourning
I swear, the simplest things can pack the most punch. Three words and a whole scenario is set. The exclamation point packs its own wallop, underscoring that this isn’t a suggestion, but an insistence. (No Mourners Allowed!) We are making huge progress. People...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 18, 2017 | Acceptance of death, alternative containers, columbarium, Cremains, Life celebration, niches for cremains
To counteract last week’s gloomy post, we’re going to the other end of the spectrum today: Color! Tie-dye! Hippie culture! A 1960s Volkswagon bus turned into a columbarium. (Columbarium – a room or building with niches for funeral urns to be stored.)...
by Kyle Tevlin | May 11, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Loss, sadness
When you just can’t… • Think about funerals and fun in the same sentence • Stomach that there’s anything lighthearted about death • Muster an ounce of interest in reflecting on your mortality • Find a reason to celebrate anything at the end of a life • Feel anything...
by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 7, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Loss
Time for another True Confession. And this one will seem so loony that I can only laugh while I tremble to admit it. Loony because it’s so dang obvious. So seemingly innocuous. Death is normal. Yup, that’s a statement I often find impossible to spit...
