A Good Goodbye Funeral Planning

A Good Goodbye Funeral Planning Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die

Funeral planning for those who don't plan to die means collecting information and communicating wishes to family members before illness or death is a concern. Though funerals are the party no one wants to plan, you can save money, reduce stress at a time of grief, and create a good goodbye.

In Episode Two of the Mortality Movies TV series, we examine Woody Allen films focusing on death and humor (which is jus...
06/23/2026

In Episode Two of the Mortality Movies TV series, we examine Woody Allen films focusing on death and humor (which is just about all of them).

In Episode Two of Mortality Movies, host Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death®, examines how the films of Woody Allen use humor to explore mortality topics.

Mortality Movies Episode One looks at cultural landmark films about death. What's your favorite?
06/16/2026

Mortality Movies Episode One looks at cultural landmark films about death. What's your favorite?

The first episode of the television series Mortality Movies examines three films that have become cultural landmarks in how we think about death.

Last Tango in Paris: Examining grief and the complicated legacy of this landmark film from 1972.
06/09/2026

Last Tango in Paris: Examining grief and the complicated legacy of this landmark film from 1972.

Last Tango in Paris: Examining grief and the legacy of this film from 1972, featured in the Grief and Growth chapter 98.6 Mortality Movies to See Before You Die

On the surface, the film Chocolat is about temptation. But through a Mortality Movie lens, it's about death, grief, and ...
06/02/2026

On the surface, the film Chocolat is about temptation. But through a Mortality Movie lens, it's about death, grief, and the many ways the dead can shape the lives of the living.

On the surface, Chocolat is about temptation. But through a Mortality Movie lens, it's about death, grief, and ways the dead can shape the lives of the living.

In Montmartre, Paris, we explore Mortality Movie themes in the film Amélie, featured in 98.6 Mortality Movies to See Bef...
05/26/2026

In Montmartre, Paris, we explore Mortality Movie themes in the film Amélie, featured in 98.6 Mortality Movies to See Before You Die.

A French Mortality Movie I recently rewatched is Amélie (2001), in the Mortality and Living Fully chapter of 98.6 Mortality Movies to See Before You Die.

Paris, Je T’Aime is a film that features love, loss, laughter, and vampires in the City of Light.
05/19/2026

Paris, Je T’Aime is a film that features love, loss, laughter, and vampires in the City of Light.

Paris, Je T’Aime is a collection of five-minute stories directed by different filmmakers, each in a different Paris neighborhood. Some are Mortality Movies!

Over the weekend, the last three videos for the Route 66 ash scattering road trip were posted online. The stops were in ...
05/18/2026

Over the weekend, the last three videos for the Route 66 ash scattering road trip were posted online. The stops were in Clinton, Oklahoma at the Oklahoma Route 66 History Museum, Groom, Texas at the gigantic Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and on the east side of Amarillo at the Slug Bug Ranch. Links to each video are below:
Route 66 History Museum: https://youtu.be/eS4hiLbdELY
Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ: https://youtu.be/EgG-IGNlKwg
Slug Bug Ranch: https://youtu.be/Dz2AS_adWOQ

Thanks to Martie McNabb for accompanying Gail Rubin on this journey, and thanks to Passages International, Inc. - Green Funeral Products and Etern.Life for the scattering tubes and memorial website!

(Photo from the Oklahoma Route 66 History Museum)

Reached the turn around point for the Route 66 ash scattering trip for my brother-in-law Steven Bleicher. Included in th...
05/15/2026

Reached the turn around point for the Route 66 ash scattering trip for my brother-in-law Steven Bleicher. Included in this video is part of an interview with Blaine Davis, the son of the man who built the Blue Whale of Catoosa. Martie McNabb and I happened to meet him in the gift shop of the National Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma. What are the chances? Thanks to Passages International, Inc. - Green Funeral Products and Etern.Life for the scattering tubes and memorial website placements!

https://etern.life/memorials/steven-bleicher/ took a road trip from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Catoosa, Oklahoma, to scatter the cremated remains o...

Two unlikely films about facing death - 1966 King of Hearts and 2007 The Savages.
05/12/2026

Two unlikely films about facing death - 1966 King of Hearts and 2007 The Savages.

We can discuss death in two very different ways, watching the films King of Hearts and The Savages. Mortality Movies come in many different forms!

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