National Create A Great Funeral Day 2024

Reason to celebrate: October 30, 2024 is National Create A Great Funeral Day.

An very new holiday – Create A Great Funeral Day is barely ten years old. Registered being an official holiday by Stephanie West Allen as a means of trying to alleviate pressure of needing to decide what a family member want for his or her final send out.Your Day began using the about getting family members to sit down lower together and discuss the things they want in their funeral so their family members know when it's time and don't have to juggle their grief with attempting to plan a funeral and you know what they'd have wanted, even when it's so almost as much ast a specific song performed in the funeral, or words for that headstone.

6 tips for funeral planning

When it comes to planning a funeral, families and loved ones have decisions to make, but pre-planning one's funeral service can ease the burden by determining many details ahead of time. “Pre-planning is a loving thing to do for your family,” said John ...

Expert discusses death, Dia de los Muertos, and tradition

This coming weekend isn't just about the candy, costumes, and scary movies. Tomorrow, October 30, is the 14^th annual Create a Great Funeral Day. Then, November 2 is of course Dia de los Muertos. Gail discusses a bit the history of Dia de los Muertos ...

All for What? Evaluate Your Life Day

... want to be different. You only get to live this life once, so you might as well invest time in evaluating and adjusting it now. That way, when you have to celebrate October 30th's event (Create A Great Funeral Day), you can feel good about the life ...

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One of the last holidays, in both the sense of most recently created and the one you may be celebrating closest to the afterlife, "Create a Great Funeral Day" occurs on Oct. 30 and is intended to spur people to make their final arrangements. Stephanie ...