Thursday, May 31, 2018
Funeral directors hear it all the time: “Oh, it’s too soon for me to preplan my funeral.” The common refrain: “It’s always too soon, until it’s too late.” How do you create a “good goodbye”?
Think about this: funerals are a life cycle event much like a wedding, best planned more than a few days ahead of time. They have the same elements of party planning as any other get-together.
You decide on a date, time and place, work with clergy or a celebrant, extend invitations to guests, plan what will be said, construct a menu, and incorporate unique features to make the occasion meaningful. But funerals are the parties no one wants to plan.
If brides and grooms planned their weddings the way most people plan their funerals, they’d be scrambling to pull all the elements together in three to five days. Talk about stress!
A funeral is a life cycle event that every family will undertake for every member at some point. With advance planning, organization and communication, families can minimize the emotional and financial chaos that often takes hold when someone dies.
It’s never too soon to plan ahead when you’ve got a 100% mortality rate and tomorrow is not guaranteed.
A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die
A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die by Gail Rubin, CT, provides the information, inspiration and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and their pets. Just as talking about sex won’t make you pregnant, talking about funerals won’t make you dead – and your family will benefit from the conversation.
CLICK HERE to order your personalized signed copy of A Good Goodbye. The book retails for $21.95.
A Good Goodbye addresses the Baby Boomer generation with gentle humor on the vital information about funeral arrangements that most people don’t learn about until faced with a death in the family. This easy-to-read book tells how to plan a memorial service and reception, ways to communicate the news, collect vital information before it’s needed, and write obituaries and eulogies.
It also presents background on many religious traditions, new funeral trends and creative non-religious rituals, event-planning checklists, information forms for death certificates and obituaries, and cost containment. It even covers ways to honor the death of a pet and remember deceased loved ones annually.
A Good Goodbye is available for e-readers at $9.99 or less: iBookstore, Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s NOOK and more!
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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 ABQ 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 400 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.
Sign up for a free planning form and occasional informative newsletter at her website, AGoodGoodbye.com.