by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 12, 2016 | Death, Funeral music, Uncategorized
Trivia! Do you know… The name of the theme music to the 1955-1965 show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents? “Funeral March Of A Marionette” written in 1872 by French composer Charles Gounod. According to Wikipedia, Hitchcock died on April 29, 1980, at 80 years old. His body...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 12, 2016 | Death, Funeral music, Uncategorized
Trivia! Do you know… The name of the theme music to the 1955-1965 show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents? “Funeral March Of A Marionette” written in 1872 by French composer Charles Gounod. According to Wikipedia, Hitchcock died on April 29, 1980, at 80 years old. His body...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 29, 2016 | Death, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral costs, Funerals, Life celebration, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
I understand that song “A Boy Named Sue.” Intimately. Though probably less violently because I’ve never had to crash a chair across someone’s teeth over it. Cheers to that! So when I met another middle-aged woman named Kyle — a first for me — it felt like...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 14, 2016 | Death, Funerals, New Zealand, Personalized funeral, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
Here’s a little inspiration for you from the New Zealand Listener. A rhapsody of praise for the self-created, celebratory funeral from one Kevin Ireland. He and his wife decided, in their 70s and after attending one too many morbid funerals, that they wanted...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 1, 2016 | Death, FCA, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral costs, Personalized funeral, Urban Death Project
This past weekend I was at the Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) conference down in Atlanta. And I do believe a good time was had by all! Three days of people from all walks of life, coming together to talk openly, practically, and best of all—enthusiastically about...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jun 17, 2016 | Acceptance of death, Death, Uncategorized
A horrible, soul-crushing week of violence and loss: three awful and shocking tragedies in Orlando, and then just this afternoon the killing of the UK lawmaker. So much death and sadness. Horror. Pain. No way to really take it all in. Virtually all of these senseless...
