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These Newly-Dead Game Couples Tested on Last Wishes
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Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert
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Dateline: Albuquerque, NM
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

 

Newly-Dead Game LogoCouples scrambled to sign up to play The Newly-Dead Game® at the 2017 Frozen Dead Guy Days festival! What’s The Newly-Dead Game?

The Newly-Dead Game was conceived as a way to help start funeral planning conversations in a fun, non-threatening way. The game is based on elements of the classic TV show The Newlywed Game, but the questions in The Newly-Dead Game revolve around how well the couple knows each other’s last wishes.

Four questions are asked, each progressively more challenging, with a value of 5, 10 and 15 points. The emcee then interviews the couples to reveal their answers. The couple that gets the most answers correct get the most points, and the highest-scoring couple wins the top prize!

The game is designed for four couples to play. At least eight couples who wanted to play the three games at 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Saturday and 3:00 p.m. on Sunday hadn’t signed up in time. What great demand!

Thanks to all the couples who participated. Each Newly-Dead Game couple received a bag of BereaveMints and the top-scoring couples also received the 4-DVD set of the TV interview seriesA Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die (a $50 value!).

The Newly-Dead Game first debuted at Frozen Dead Guy Days in 2011. You can get your own digital copy of the game for $24.97. For more information, visit this web page.

Thanks to our sponsor Passages International, leaders in environmentally-friendly and green funeral products, and AGreenerFuneral.org, their educational website on making funeral arrangements more eco-friendly.

Here’s video of the Saturday 1:00 p.m. game:

Saturday’s 5:00 p.m. game took place in the Garden Room at the Black Forest Restaurant:

And here’s the game that took place at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday:

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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