by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 27, 2018 | Funerals
A new widow was so tired of her family members telling her that her deceased husband was in a better place, that she posted this sign at the funeral. We have so much power to design our goodbyes. If there’s something you feel strongly about… don’t...
by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 18, 2016 | Funerals, Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Planning your own funerals, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
By this time next week, Thanksgiving dinner will be done, everyone stuffed, everyone hopefully still all speaking to one another. I often hear the suggestion among End-of-Life planning people that holidays are a good time to discuss your last wishes— good as in...
by Kyle Tevlin | Oct 20, 2016 | Beach, Death, Funerals, Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Planning your own funerals, Uncategorized
“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.” Jack Benny It’s the third week of October and I’m sitting outside on a 75° day, something I hadn’t expected to do again until Spring. Lucky us,...
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...