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It's Time to Talk on Create a Great Funeral Day
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Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert
Albuquerque, NM
Friday, October 28, 2016


Gail Rubin, CT, The Doyenne of Death®
 
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October 30, 2016 is the 17th annual Create a Great Funeral Day. This is an opportune time to start a funeral planning conversation.

"It's appropriate that Create a Great Funeral Day comes right before Halloween and the Day of the Dead celebration," said death educator Gail Rubin. "Before ghosts can go a-haunting and spirits of the deceased can be celebrated, someone's gotta die."

The idea behind Create a Great Funeral Day is to consider how you would like to be remembered. By letting loved ones know how you'd like your life celebrated, the survivors' experience can be so much easier. One available tool is the Have the Talk of a Lifetime program (www.TalkofaLifetime.org), which encourages families to start conversations about life and what matters most.

Create a Great Funeral Day began in 2000, started by Stephanie West Allen. She saw her husband struggling to pull together a meaningful funeral for his mother, who had left no directions before she died. Observing his grief, Allen felt that knowing what her mother-in-law might have wanted would have eased the pain of memorial service preparations. As a result, she authored Creating Your Own Funeral or Memorial Service: A Workbook.

"Create a Great Funeral Day prompts us to be mindful of our mortality. This self-awareness enables us to plan reflectively in advance, so we don't leave our families to react, disorganized and stressed, after our death," explained Allen.

"A fear of funeral planning equates to fear of death. Those who hold fear in one area of their lives often have fear in other areas. It won't kill you to move away from the fear of funerals," said Rubin.

Since people are more inclined to deal with downsizing their excess stuff than to plan for end-of-life, Rubin wrote KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die. The book, now available in both eBook and paperback formats, is two-thirds about downsizing and one-third about making end-of-life plans.

Rubin is available for interview by calling 505-265-7215. Click here for more information about KICKING THE BUCKET LIST.

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Gail Rubin, CT, is author and host of the award-winning book and television series, A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die, Hail and Farewell: Cremation Ceremonies, Templates and Tips, and KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die.

Rubin is a Certified Thanatologist (that's a death educator) and a popular speaker who uses humor and films to get the end-of-life and funeral planning conversation started. She "knocked 'em dead" with her TEDx talk, A Good Goodbye. She provides continuing education credit classes for attorneys, doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, financial planners, funeral directors and other professionals. She's a Certified Funeral Celebrant and funeral planning consultant who has been interviewed in national and local print, broadcast and online media.

Known as The Doyenne of Death®, she also hosts A Good Goodbye Internet radio show and produces Mortality Minute radio and online video spots.

Rubin is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association, Toastmasters International and the National Speakers Association New Mexico Chapter. Her speaking profile is available at eSpeakers.com.

Gail Rubin has been interviewed about funeral planning issues in national and local broadcast, print and online media. Outlets include The Huffington Post, Money Magazine, Kiplinger, CBS Radio News, WGN-TV,  and local affiliates for NPR, PBS, FOX, ABC-TV, CBS-TV and NBC-TV.

Sign up for a free planning form and occasional informative newsletter at her website, AGoodGoodbye.com.
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