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Bad Goodbyes: When Funerals Feel Like Something's Missing

May 20, 2026

You've Probably Been to One

Most of us have.

The service that felt borrowed from somewhere else. The eulogy that mispronounced her name twice. The repeated line of “well, I didn’t know the Bob but h...

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The Quiet Pull Toward Ceremony Work: How to Tell If It’s Curiosity or a Calling

May 15, 2026

You Keep Coming Back to This

Maybe it started at a funeral. You were sitting in a folding chair, listening to someone you’d never met read your aunt’s biography like a LinkedIn profile, and a small, ...

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Off-the-shelf funerals no longer cut it, so read this book!

Oct 07, 2022

New American Funerals is the first guidebook in more than 30 years to focus solely on creating and conducting nonreligious American end-of-life ceremonies. 

Funerals are changing faster than ever! No...

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Get to Know an End of Life Expert!

Oct 14, 2020

Beth Stokes is an Endorsed Humanist Celebrant, Advocate & Educator for End of Life Planning. End of Life Celebrations training begins May 2021. Enrollment is open, don't wait as we do expect this clas...

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