by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 1, 2016 | Burial, Caitlin Doughty, Cremains, Cremation, Death, Funerals, Life celebration, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral
Time for a video. It’s only 5 minutes and it’s funny. Kooky funny, but with an educational bonus. You always learn something with Caitlin. Caitlin Doughty is the founder of the Order of the Good Death. She also has a webseries on You Tube, Ask a Mortician....
by Kyle Tevlin | Mar 18, 2016 | Death, Funerals, Life celebration, Mourning, Pre-planning funeral, Preplanning your funeral, Uncategorized
There’s no denying that when someone dies, there is sadness and grief— and possibly mountains of it, depending on the circumstances. No amount of “fun funeraling” can bypass that, though of course I take the position that even in the worst cases — and in fact...
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...