by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 3, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration
Planning your own goodbye party is not a thing. Talking about death is not a thing. Comfort with knowing that one day one of your breaths is going to be your last is not a thing. We are so not okay with dying it’s not even funny. Here I am trying to have fun...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 13, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Personalized funeral
A five-year old girls dies and the funeral tea party is all about fun, toys, and cupcakes. Nope, not make-believe and not disrespectful. On the contrary, it was the highest of tributes to a girl whose infectious joy and good-naturedness was irrepressible, even at her...
by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 16, 2016 | Acceptance of death, Death, Life celebration, Planning your own funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
Today I want to talk about taking ownership. As we own that ’tis the holidays and we have shopping, decorating, wrapping, and overeating to do… I’m talking about taking ownership of your own goodbye plans. ’Cause I’ve observed something in my four years of...
by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 11, 2016 | Acceptance of death, Body donation, Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Planning your own funerals, Preplanning your funeral
The world is changing (quite shockingly), and so is I Want a Fun Funeral. I want to make it even more fun. I want to make it even more palatable, even more comforting and comfortable, and I want it to be even more transformational. That was a lot of “I want”s in a...
by Kyle Tevlin | Oct 27, 2016 | Acceptance of death, alternative containers, Caskets, Cremains, Cremation, Death, green burials, Planning your own funerals, Uncategorized
It was an exciting week at I Want a Fun Funeral! First, on Sunday October 23, 2016 there was the article on the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer about my workshop. Thanks to an excellent reporter and photographer, anyone who couldn’t quite imagine what...
