by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 14, 2017 | Life celebration, Personalized funeral, Planning your own funerals, Preplanning your funeral
Nobody… okay, maybe .5 person per 1000 people, wants to plan their own funeral. But suppose it were a more popular project. Chances are one of the first questions would be “Where do I even begin?” And right now we’re just talking about the service. I already...
by Kyle Tevlin | Mar 10, 2017 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration
“It’s not for everyone” — a sentiment that applies to many aspects of I Want a Fun Funeral. In fact, I’m head disclaimer proclaimer. And this may be the shiniest example of that yet: Funeral Homes with Bars. Yep, you read that right, and whether you...
by Kyle Tevlin | Mar 3, 2017 | Life celebration, Personalized funeral
This is a neat idea. 89 year-old grandmother Margaret Hubl of Nebraska was a quilter. (We all know a quilter, don’t we?) As one of her granddaughters said, “Never did I imagine how many there were…” Margaret’s family decided to put all the quilts out...
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...
by Kyle Tevlin | Jul 1, 2016 | Death, FCA, Funeral Consumers Alliance, funeral costs, Personalized funeral, Urban Death Project
This past weekend I was at the Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) conference down in Atlanta. And I do believe a good time was had by all! Three days of people from all walks of life, coming together to talk openly, practically, and best of all—enthusiastically about...
