Lately Posts

It was Monday, June 15, 2020. The day my restaurant died. Well, it wasn’t technically my restaurant, but it was the elegant French dining room on Manhattan's Upper East Side where I was a Maitre D. It was the restaurant where I felt at home welcoming...

End-of-life conversations are among the most important discussions we can have with the people we love, yet they remain some of the most avoided. Research consistently shows that families who talk openly about death and funeral wishes experience less...

There are few journeys in life that are truly universal. Death is one of them, and recent current events have put the topic front and center, making our mission at Farewelling even more relevant and important than it was when we launched at the end o...

The death of a loved one affects us on every level. Mentally, we're preoccupied with thoughts and memories; emotionally, we experience a rollercoaster of intense feelings; and physically, we're overwhelmed by the immediate and long-term responsibilit...

A few years after someone we love has passed, many of us find ourselves wondering which is better: to celebrate their birthday or mark the anniversary of their death?  Luckily with William Shakespeare, we don’t have to decide. With regard t...

If you've found yourself at any point blissfully origami-ing your underwear a la Japanese organizational guru Marie Kondo, you may be ready for the Scandinavian decluttering trend of "death cleaning."  Following in the Nordic footsteps of a...