Lately Posts

I’ve been working in a largely woman-led industry--weddings--for many years. When I decided to point my designer’s eye toward the end-of-life planning sector, I looked for guidance and inspiration, and I was mesmerized by the book Advice for Future C...

In my work as a designer of bespoke events--weddings and engagements, product launches, birthday bashes--I’ve had the good fortune to bring beauty and magic to many celebrations. And to be honest, until a few years ago, I never really thought about t...

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...

Even in “normal” times, addressing someone else’s loss can be awkward and difficult. Most of us like to avoid any talk around death or grief. Now, as we navigate a global pandemic, when due to COVID-19 restrictions we can’t just show up at someone’s...

If you’ve lost a loved one during COVID-19, aka Coronavirus, we are so very sorry. Restrictions from the pandemic have made funerals nearly impossible for the time being, and what’s worse, we can’t gather and hug and remember and comfort each other....

With the chaos of COVID-19, we’ve heard from stressed-out folks who want to do something positive and proactive to take back some sense of control by organizing the things we don’t necessarily want to think about all the time.  For example: heal...