by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 19, 2016 | Funerals, Life celebration, Prayer cards, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
So last week I talked about ways to personalize your goodbye party so that you’ll be RECOGNIZED, for God’s sake. By which I don’t mean that people know that’s you in the casket, or that you set yourself up for rewards and accolades. I mean that...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 12, 2016 | Death, Funerals, Life celebration, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
I just read an article on The Guardian about a “perfectly lovely and life-affirming a funeral” of someone who died suddenly and unexpectedly at only 49. I read a lot of stories about dying, death, and funerals, but this author, Kathryn Flett totally made a light bulb...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 29, 2016 | Death, Funeral music, Funerals, Life celebration, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
Every week I hear a favorite new thing someone’s experienced at a funeral. Tonight it was Frank Sinatra playing at a funeral service (in a church, no less.) (And I don’t mean Frank himself, just to be clear.)  And later, Dean Martin was played. People got...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 29, 2016 | Death, Funeral music, Funerals, Life celebration, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
Every week I hear a favorite new thing someone’s experienced at a funeral. Tonight it was Frank Sinatra playing at a funeral service (in a church, no less.) (And I don’t mean Frank himself, just to be clear.)  And later, Dean Martin was played. People got...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 15, 2016 | Burial, Death, Funerals, Life celebration, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
That’s the phrase which summed up David Bowie’s funeral plans. As the media is reporting, he presumably had a “direct cremation,” which means there was no service or viewing. The body is taken to the crematory, where often the the crematory...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 15, 2016 | Burial, Death, Funerals, Life celebration, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
That’s the phrase which summed up David Bowie’s funeral plans. As the media is reporting, he presumably had a “direct cremation,” which means there was no service or viewing. The body is taken to the crematory, where often the the crematory...