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 22, 2016 | Death, Funerals, Preplanning your funeral
My friend Terry had 35 people at her monthly Death Cafe tonight here in Doylestown, PA. 35 people who want to talk about death. At the public library, in a small(ish) town, of their own accord. I would take this as a pretty good indicator of how much people are not...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jan 22, 2016 | Death, Funerals, Preplanning your funeral
My friend Terry had 35 people at her monthly Death Cafe tonight here in Doylestown, PA. 35 people who want to talk about death. At the public library, in a small(ish) town, of their own accord. I would take this as a pretty good indicator of how much people are not...
