by Kyle Tevlin | Dec 16, 2016 | Acceptance of death, Death, Life celebration, Planning your own funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
Today I want to talk about taking ownership. As we own that ’tis the holidays and we have shopping, decorating, wrapping, and overeating to do… I’m talking about taking ownership of your own goodbye plans. ’Cause I’ve observed something in my four years of...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 26, 2016 | Planning your own funerals, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
I always tell the amazing fun funeral planners in my workshops that writing down what you want is essential. I even mention it to strangers sitting at a bar if we happen to get on the topic. Which if you’re me, is not a rare event. Chalk one up for my life, I...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sometimes your vision is crystal clear, such as the disco-ball-in-the-mausoleum-lover from a few posts’ ago. But other times it can be totally unobvious (not actually a word), yet there is something… just a gnawing little something, where you know that the...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 29, 2016 | Death, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral costs, Funerals, Life celebration, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
I understand that song “A Boy Named Sue.” Intimately. Though probably less violently because I’ve never had to crash a chair across someone’s teeth over it. Cheers to that! So when I met another middle-aged woman named Kyle — a first for me — it felt like...
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...