by Kyle Tevlin | Sep 30, 2023 | Acceptance of death
So what’s the best thing about death? Our favorite thing about it? Not absurd! Despite that probably being your first thought . The best thing about death is that we know it’s going to happen. That is such a game-changer. (It really should be a...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 7, 2021 | Acceptance of death
Ever think about your own death? Not as an abstraction, but for real, as in turning in for the night and never waking up, or keeling over on the kitchen counter and being a goner just like that. I could get more graphic, but there’s really no reason for that!...
by Kyle Tevlin | Apr 5, 2020 | Acceptance of death, pandemic
After a few hopeless starts for this blog post, I’m leaving it at this: Make friends with “I don’t know.” Like good, good friends. BFFs. Throw a Welcome Party for uncertainty. And try to take in, deep in your bones, that all of this stuff in our lives is a...
by Kyle Tevlin | Aug 14, 2018 | Acceptance of death, Life celebration, Personalized funeral
This article by Erica Buist from The Guardian says so well what I Want a Fun Funeral is so much about. I’m not sure I ever articulated this point even to myself, but boy does it get to the heart of the matter: “We don’t want to trivialise the loss, but why not...
