November 12 2018
From All Hallows’ Eve, Halloween, All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day, and Día de los Muertos, through Veterans Day, World Kindness Day, Thanksgiving, National Day of Listening and National Day of Givi...
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November 5 2018
Our theme this month is Conversations Count: Time for Family, Time for Talk! November is Time for Family, Time for Talk month. The Funeral and Memorial Council (FAMIC) created this event to encoura...
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October 29 2018
Not only do we want to consider our own legacies, but we want to honor the legacies of our deceased loved ones too. Below are a few ideas:
Light a candle.
Make a quilt out of their old clothes....
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October 22 2018
We often get caught up in our day-to-day lives and neglect thinking about legacies, including making sure our loved ones know how we feel about them. Stanford University created the Letter Project ...
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October 15 2018
According to Allianz Insurance, legacies include four pillars: values and life lessons; instructions and wishes to be fulfilled; personal possessions of emotional value; and financial assets ...
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October 8 2018
Continuing with our theme of Honoring Legacies, Shirley MacLaine starred in a movie last year entitled The Last Word. In it she asks a journalist to write her obituary and through the process decid...
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October 1 2018
Our theme this month is Honoring Legacies! Whether we think about it or not, we all leave a legacy or things we pass on to others. What do you want those things to be? How do you want to be remembe...
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September 24 2018
As we’ve been talking about our monthly theme, Plan Ahead, I hope you heard the underlying message that holding death before us can help us embrace life now. I leave you this month with a poem by M...
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September 17 2018
Planning Ahead for your own end of life and death involves all dimensions of your life – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. The physical involves how you want to Live now. The emotion...
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September 10 2018
Our theme this month is Plan Ahead. When I talk to groups about planning ahead for our own deaths, some people’s eyes get big and their heels start tapping – it is a topic that makes them uncomfort...
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