Lately Posts

When do you tell people that someone important to you has died? “Mommy, Mommy!” It was the voice of my nine-year-old son, who can be pretty darned persistent even when he just wants more macaroni and cheese before soccer practice. At the time, I...

My family are big-time music lovers, each with their own preferences. But when I planned funerals for my dear Italian grandmother and my own father, it wasn’t yet a trend to play nontraditional music at a funeral service. For my grandmother, it...

Death, dying and occasional cocktails. Farewelling founder Karen Bussen hosts celebrities, experts, and regular folks on a groundbreaking interview show to get us all talking more openly about death…and life. Season 1 features humorist and CBS S...

Don’t Make Your Family Ask, ‘Does This Spark Joy?’ 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 clea...

Green funerals are a hot topic right now, but what does it actually mean to have a green funeral or natural burial? Broadly speaking, having a green funeral (or “farewelling”) means that throughout the process, environmentally-friendly practices will...

I’ve been in the events and entertaining world for over a decade. A few years ago, when my younger sister confronted a serious health crisis, I started thinking—reluctantly—about life and death. I didn’t know where to turn for information, and I was...