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 | Mar 4, 2016 | Funerals, Life celebration, Pre-planning funeral
So I’m on a crusade to share examples of how to make a goodbye party the most meaningful and memorable it can be. Because as I’ve said, why else bother? If our goodbye ceremony doesn’t impact us (ahem, in a wonderful and profound way), then we missed...
by Kyle Tevlin | Feb 26, 2016 | Funerals, Life celebration, Preplanning your funeral
So… speaking of making sure your goodbye party includes the parts of your life that have made your life worth living, there are people already doing this without any prompting from somebody’s blog post. Check out this wonderful story. “When Louise died in 2011 after...
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...
