by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 19, 2018 | Life celebration
This week, it’s a guest post from Beautiful Tribute, a company (from across the pond, no less) offering free online memorials (to people from anywhere, pond or no pond). ‘A Vote for the Fun Ways to Truly Celebrate a Life Well Lived’ by Victoria Bates Beautiful...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 12, 2018 | Life celebration, Preplanning your funeral
Check it out. Throwing Your Own Afterlife Party A really, really sweet and funny article about better goodbyes!! Can I get a Hallelujah?! It was great fun talking to the author, Abby Sher, who is clearly both very funny and very thoughtful. And she became inspired to...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 5, 2018 | Life celebration, Planning your own funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
“Planning your funeral should be a priority and to prove why, here’s my plan” Actual headline of an article by a well-known (I think) British broadcaster, producer, director and columnist, Jasmine Dotiwala. It’s not that it’s a famous person saying it...
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 | Dec 1, 2017 | Life celebration, Planning your own funerals, Unforuntate funeral experiences
I had a lively, in-person, fun-funeral-planning gathering this week in someone’s home, complete with wine, brownies, and a roaring, crackling fire going in the den. We narrowly averted a couple of accidental cremations, but that can happen when you’re...
by Kyle Tevlin | Nov 16, 2017 | Life celebration, Planning your own funerals
Of course I’m preaching to the choir again, but I can’t help sharing signs of how much our funeral wishes are changing. It’s almost nonexistent that someone says they want a sad, somber send-off. (Which is what we grew up with — we all know this kind...
