Living Funeral Party

What to do?

Endless possibilies and varieties of inventive and delightful activities can add a dose of fun and fortune to your living funeral event. Be sure that whenever possible that these activities are recorded for posterity.

Activities

• Have a karaoke event with the guest of honors favorite songs.
• Create and plant a time capsule.
• Make a reunion picture board collage or quilt.
• Put on a family memorabilia scavenger hunt

Make Family History Fun

• Remember to a guest book to share feelings, comments and suggestions
• Ask the family historian, story-teller, or keeper of the family lore, to share meaningful ancestrial history or family legend.
• Honor family ancestors with ancestrial tribute.
• Stage family interviews.
• Hire photographer for taking family portraits and portraits
• Stage oral history recordings for elders.
• Stage a family history reenactment

Games

• Casino night or Monte Carlo Night
• Fun Family history facts contest
• Fishing - see who can catch the most
• Have a horseshoe toss
• Have door prizes or raffles of family oriented gifts.
• Prepare a family trivia game preparing a number of family history quiz questions and prizes for right answers.
• Break out the boardgames

Archive

• Put together a family geneology book
• Share family cookbooks / family recipes.
• Collects and archive group history.
• Digitize and display your family tree, wall charts, year books, memory books, albums, historical documents, and digital assets for distribution to family members including video recording and print materials of the living funeral event afterward.
• Share video footage and create a family history documentary.
• Laminate family heirlooms
• Prepare materials for a family website.
• Passing on ethical will wishes for the future.

Outings

• Take a ride on a horse drawn carrage
• Visit a planitarium
• Take a trip to the symphony hall
• Take a walk through the arboretum
• A sight seeing tour down memory lane
• Prepare an oudoor barbecue or picnic (Even if it rains - you can make it great!)

Festive Funeral

• Have a band for dancing.
• Ask family members to dress in the costume of a certain era to add fun and freshness.
• Have video monitors with family movies on loop playing.
• Prepare a butterfly release for the kickoff or the closing of the event

Wrapping Up

• Last but not least don’t forget to make after party cleanup part of the event.

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