Individuals Edition of The Newly-Dead Game® to debut at the 2019 Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival
Since 2011, The Newly-Dead Game® has been a fixture at the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival in Nederland, Colorado, and couples always scramble to participate. This year, with the introduction of an Individuals Edition of the game, everyone in the audience can play along!
Drop by Nederland's Caribou Shopping Center at 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 108, to catch The Newly-Dead Game during the 2019 Frozen Dead Guy Days festival on Saturday, March 9 and Sunday, March 10! While you're there, stick around to see the humorous documentary, "Grandpa's in the TUFF Shed."
A Short History of The Newly-Dead Game
In March of 2010, the ABC Nightly News ran a national story about this crazy festival in Nederland, Colorado. From her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, pioneering death educator Gail Rubin was transfixed by images of coffin racing over a snowy obstacle course, a parade of hearses, and costumed polar plunging. She said to herself, "I don't know how, but next year, I'm going to be there as part of that festival."
At the time, she was writing her book, A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die, and working with a marketing guru. He suggested creating a game that would be fun as well as educational and came up with the title.
The Newly-Dead Game is based on the idea behind the classic television show, The Newlywed Game. Couples are quizzed on how well they know their partner's last wishes. The couple that gets the most questions right win fun prizes.
But only couples could play, and for years people had asked for a version that individuals could play. Now their request is granted!
Both the Couples and Individuals editions of The Newly-Dead Game pose four questions. While couples are asked different questions, individuals have four simple questions to answer. The four questions are:
- Do you have a will?
- What are your disposition plans?
- Do you have advance medical directives?
- Do you have a final resting place for your mortal remains?
In the Individuals edition, you can choose one of four answers for each question. The number of points you get for your answer depends on your degree of preparedness. The last answer is always, "I don't care. I'll be dead." Strategy hint: You won't get any points for that answer.
Attend Film Showings and Games!
The Newly-Dead Game will be played four times over the weekend at the Caribou Shopping Center, Unit 108, 20 Lakeview Drive, Nederland. This is also where you can see showings of Robin Beeck's 25-minute documentary masterpiece, "Grandpa's in the TUFF Shed." It's showing every 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Don't miss this chance to laugh and learn about the origin of the Frozen Dead Guy and how the festival got started!
Here's the schedule for both editions of The Newly-Dead Game:
Saturday, 1:00 p.m. – Couples Edition
Saturday, 5:00 p.m. – Individuals Edition
Sunday, 12:00 p.m. – Individuals Edition
Sunday, 4:00 p.m. – Couples Edition
Make plans to come by, see the film and play the game!
These sponsors make the film showings and The Newly-Dead Game at Frozen Dead Guy Days possible: A Good Goodbye, AquamationInfo.com, Seven Stones Botanical Garden Cemetery, and Passages International. For more information about The Newly-Dead Game and to purchase both editions for $24.97, visit this page at www.AGoodGoodbye.com.
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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 is the event coordinator of the Before I Die NM Festival. She also hosts A Good Goodbye Internet radio show and produces Mortality Minute radio and online video spots. Her YouTube Channel features more than 450 videos!
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. Albuquerque Business First named her as one of their 2019 Women of Influence.
Sign up for a free planning form and occasional informative newsletter at her website, AGoodGoodbye.com.