by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 2, 2016 | Personalized funeral
In the Strange But True category, and more Hmm, that’s different… than Fun per se, here’s an option for being more involved and engaged in the funeral process than you might have every pondered: The Assisted Family Dress Experience! This is when you go in the...
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 | 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 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 | Sep 23, 2016 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Planning your own funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
A few words today about the “What do I care, I’ll be dead” train of thought that some people favor as a way to avoid funeral talk. Fair enough, your absence from the event cannot be argued. However, the loose connection in that rationale is that your...
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...
