My Wonderful Life

10/08/2020

Planning the financial aspects of a parent's funeral is emotionally stressful and taxing on everyone involved. Check out mywonderfullife.com for tips, advice, and financial checklists to help guide you. planning

10/01/2020

Take the burden of planning a funeral off of your family and friends by planning it yourself. Our easy to use online planning tool has everything you need to make your wishes known, store photos, and leave detailed instructions so there is no guess work. Visit Mywonderfullife.com to learn more!

09/11/2020

Thanks Kevyn for talking about My Wonderful Life and how the pandemic is changing everything we know about end-of-life celebrations.

Families must downsize services, go online or postpone them — and the healing process.

06/02/2020

There should be more shows that make talking about your final wishes part of your life: https://bit.ly/2WuQV5H

50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy is no more, but the pair are back

06/02/2020

During this crisis, it is a really good time to get your estate plans in order. We can’t predict the future… https://on.wsj.com/2WBFaKy

Financial-services firms and tech startups are streamlining the process of getting wills, trusts and life insurance to make these tasks more palatable to young families who tend to push estate planning to the bottom of their to-do lists.

05/19/2020

Every other industry has to be transparent about pricing and funeral homes need to do the same: https://bit.ly/3dlK7xT

Funeral homes that don't post prices online charge more, fueling price disparities and calls for transparency

05/12/2020

Mary Pipher is a remarkable woman who writes on many subjects about women and the joy of aging. Here is one that is worth reading during this time. https://nyti.ms/2xJ7u5w

While death is inevitable, our attitude about it is not.

05/08/2020

We are so proud of our healthcare workers as they also face the possibility of their own mortality. https://wapo.st/2WDsKCe

The coronavirus crisis has forced those at the front lines of treatment to confront their own mortality.

04/07/2020

More creative ways to minimize the cost of dying. https://bit.ly/3cBh2yR

It's not an easy topic to talk about - death and the costs that come with it. Death is complicated- there's no doubt about it. It not only affects you emotionally but financially. WEAR. "It's not something we would care to talk about, but we need to and address it. It's going to happen to all of us....

04/03/2020

The problem we all have to deal with. It is better to make your social media easy for your loved ones to access after you die by taking care of that now. After you die it is very difficult to do. https://fxn.ws/2IsfIAM

None of us are getting out of this alive. With the advent of consumer tech and the internet, you can now make your wishes known in a myriad of ways. For starters, if you’re wondering where’s the best place to make sure your loved ones follow your will directives and have access to your passwords...

03/31/2020

A point-of-view from an atheist about how she found comfort in a religious service. https://bit.ly/38xdhau

By Linda LaScola, Editor This past Saturday I attended the “Celebration of Life” of the brother of an old friend of mine. I’d only met the brother once, but I’d heard about him often from my friend and more recently as he suffered multiple setbacks with various forms of cancer. I always inte...

03/30/2020

Great ideas on how to be environmentally friendly when we pass away: https://bit.ly/2W23g2L

This is part two in our four part series on green burial.  As we discussed in part one of our green burial series, the options for a greener death are growing. Cemeteries are opening up a…