
I Want a Fun Funeral in the News
NBC Sunday TODAY Feature
Featured on December 1, 2019 “Fun Funerals: Why more people are joining the growing trend”
Widows and Wisdom
Podcast guest of Donna Kendrick at Reiner Financial Group in Doylestown, PA. Talking about the value (financial and otherwise) of planning your own goodbye in advance. December 3, 2018 (Interview starts at 3:30)
Throwing Your Own Afterlife Party
Online story on Woolly Magazine by author Abby Sher on January 10, 2018, including I Want a Fun Funeral!
MALT teacher/artist will gladly make your funeral fun
Article in Chestnut Hill Local by writer Barbara Sherf, November 24, 2017
Why People Are Choosing Alternative Funerals
Article from AK Lander, a company producing hand crafted memorials in the UK. June 28, 2017
Article in The Director, trade magazine of the National Funeral Director’s Association
February 2017
Philadelphia Inquirer
Front page article by staff writer Jeff Gammage on October 23, 2016 covering my I Want a Fun Funeral workshop at local adult school.
Startup StorySlam
Winner of Philadelphia’s Startup StorySlam held at Benjamin’s Desk May 10, 2016. A five minute story on the theme “Rebel.”
Business Innovators Magazine
Interviewed by Tim Dimmick of Grand Slam Marketing on September 8, 2015.
Lights, Camera, Mortician! The Rise of ‘Fun Funerals’
The renowned journalist Jaweed Kaleem, Religion columnist for The Huffington Post, included I Want a Fun Funeral on July 5, 2014 in a piece he wrote about this very topic.
“Ashes to Ashes, but First a Nice Pine Box”
This particular article appeared in The New York Times on February 2, 2014.
The Opinion Pages / Letters
“Ashes to Ashes, but First a Nice Pine Box” inspired me to write this Letter to the Editor, which got published a few days later.