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A Good Goodbye
We plan our finances, our families, our retirement, just about everything except our funerals. Without end-of-life planning, life’s other plans can come undone. Just as talking about sex won’t make you pregnant, talking about funerals won’t make you dead – and your family will benefit from the conversation.
A Good Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die provides the information, inspiration and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets. It sheds light on a dark subject.
A Good Goodbye uses gentle humor to convey the vital information about funeral arrangements that most people don’t learn about until faced with a death in the family.
A Good Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die provides the information, inspiration and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets. It sheds light on a dark subject.
A Good Goodbye uses gentle humor to convey the vital information about funeral arrangements that most people don’t learn about until faced with a death in the family.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 19, 2011
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About the author
Gail Rubin
12 books5 followersGail Rubin, CT, is the author of the award-winning books A GOOD GOODBYE: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die; KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die; and HAIL AND FAREWELL: Cremation Ceremonies, Templates and Tips.
She is a death educator who uses funny films to help start serious conversations. Gail is a pioneer of the Death Cafe movement in the U.S. and is a Certified Funeral Celebrant. In addition to her books, she contributes articles to funeral trade magazines and writes The Family Plot Blog. She is a breast cancer survivor, a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA).
Earlier in her writing career, she wrote A Girl's Pocket Guide to Trouser Trout: Reflections on Dating and Fly-Fishing. The book was a winner in the Humor Category of the 2004 Book of the Year Award.
She is a death educator who uses funny films to help start serious conversations. Gail is a pioneer of the Death Cafe movement in the U.S. and is a Certified Funeral Celebrant. In addition to her books, she contributes articles to funeral trade magazines and writes The Family Plot Blog. She is a breast cancer survivor, a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) and the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA).
Earlier in her writing career, she wrote A Girl's Pocket Guide to Trouser Trout: Reflections on Dating and Fly-Fishing. The book was a winner in the Humor Category of the 2004 Book of the Year Award.
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October 3, 2018
Excellent Resource
This book answered many questions I'd never thought to ask. It also helped me realize what I can still do as divorced person with no children or siblings if I were to die tomorrow and be at peace with that. Also helped me to consider how to write my will if I am married with family at a future time. The Book is thoughtful, respectful, and most of all, readable. It takes the mystery out of an uncomfortable subject and makes the process of choosing options possible. I no longer fear this aspect of my future!
This book answered many questions I'd never thought to ask. It also helped me realize what I can still do as divorced person with no children or siblings if I were to die tomorrow and be at peace with that. Also helped me to consider how to write my will if I am married with family at a future time. The Book is thoughtful, respectful, and most of all, readable. It takes the mystery out of an uncomfortable subject and makes the process of choosing options possible. I no longer fear this aspect of my future!
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August 31, 2016A great source for ideas about how to plan for the inevitable, both yours and your loved ones.
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