I Want a Fun Funeral

03/19/2023

As a future cadaver in a medical school, I never miss a chance to crusade for body donation! A great contribution to science, medicine, and education, and the ultimate recycling.

If you’re training to become a physician, your first patient is usually dead. In fact, “first patient” is what med students call the human cadavers that they work on in anatomy class — when they first learn to make careful incisions, and lay eyes on the beautiful intricacies of bone, muscle,...

02/15/2023

Green burial = beauty in so many ways.

If there weren't already enough reasons to go green at the time of a death, there's this. ART and beauty on the grave itself. How healing for grieving people to get to do this for their loved one. Wow.

10/19/2022

I can't improve on the title: 'Ditch the hearse, bring the kids, have a picnic: tips for a better funeral"
A good read.

Rupert Callender didn’t know what to do with his life until he realised he could help people mark the deaths of their loved ones. Just don’t mention pallbearers and the other traditional trappings

11/18/2021

10/02/2021

Back by popular demand -- 4 Weeks till an in-person class at Cheltenham Township Adult School. Always a good time.
Oct 30, 10am-12noon.

die once! Contemplating your own funeral is not for the faint of heart, but getting some thoughts down on paper and into the hands of a trusted love one can be the best move you never considered making before. In this fun and lively workshop, you’ll get an easy-to-complete packet that includes eve...

06/11/2021

The 42-year-old mother of two died of cancer in May.

06/10/2021

“She wanted it to be bright and fun, and that’s exactly what it was...
“Normally people are so used to following tradition... And it really did turn into a party... instead of the normal crying and all of that. Her son was like, ‘it feels like Mommy’s here.’”

The Roselle Park mother of two died of cancer in May. One of her final requests was for friends and family not to wear traditional, black clothes to her funeral.

03/27/2021

How could you resist this?!

This should be more of a thing

01/31/2021

This is how it's done!

Mine is gonna be a straight up party after my body leaves for the green burial site. I want all the music. I want the bass to drop just as fire shoots up into the sky. I want folks(who still can) to drop it loooow. Twerking, the Macarena and the Boot Scooting Boogie. DANCE ya'll. Dance. 💃🏿🕺🏿I want them to celebrate that they still have bodies that can move. I want them to be joyful that I lived at all. And since I understand that they might be sad that I died, I want them to sob when moved. I want a fun-eral where tears are welcome too.

What do you want? 💜💀✨

Artwork:

01/12/2021

Always honored to share pictures of natural burials.