A Good Goodbye TV Series Begins Airing Again Monday

A Good Goodbye TV Series Begins Airing Again Monday Gail Rubin on set of A Good Goodbye

UPublic.TV on Comcast Cable in Albuquerque is going to start running the entire A Good Goodbye TV show series again, beginning this coming Monday, July 15. They are re-starting the series from the first episode, in new time slots.

Each new episode starts on Monday. The new air days and times on each channel are:

CH 26: Mondays at 2:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:30 p.m.

CH 27: Wednesdays at 11:30 p.m. and Sundays at 5:30 p.m.

Monday’s episode features Barbara Stewart and Mark Ballard with FRENCH Funerals-Cremations discussing pre-need funeral planning. Barbara is the company’s community liaison and Mark is director of pre-need sales.

Topics covered during the interview include:

good reasons to pre-plan a funeral BEFORE there’s a death;misconceptions and reasons people avoid advance funeral planning;how a Medicaid funeral trust can help people protect assets;examples of personalized funerals that can be planned out ahead of time;how to use an online planner to make the planning process easier.

A Good Goodbye TV is an educational and entertaining 12-episode series of 30-minute programs with expert interviews on “everything you need to know before you go.” The series will become available as online streaming videos and on DVDs (see more about that below).

Host Gail Rubin brings a light touch to a serious subject. Like her award-winning book, A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die, the television program covers information most people don’t know about until faced with a death in the family.

The first 12 programs will become a set of DVDs with three interviews per disc. A Good Goodbye TV interviews will be grouped by content:

DVD 1  Over My Dead Body: Essentials of Funeral Planning – Preneed funeral planning, cremation, cemetery Q&ADVD 2  Trending Topics: Pets, Funeral Parties and Going Green – Pet loss grief and disposition choices, life celebrations and celebrants, green burial and eco-friendly funeralsDVD 3  Death and Taxes: A Primer on Finances and Funerals – estate planning, financial planning, cost managementDVD 4  Good Grief! Save Money, Live and Die Better – Medicaid and more, advance directives, grief counseling

SPECIAL OFFER: Place your advance order for the four-DVD set and get a free copy of the book A Good Goodbye! Episodes are currently being finalized. Place your pre-production order today for only $39.97 plus shipping. A book will be sent right away to those who place advance orders. CLICK HERE to order.

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NPR’s Losing Our Religion Series

NPR’s Losing Our Religion Series

This week, NPR is running a special series of stories titled Losing Our Religion. The content has serious implication for people facing loss, as today’s installment showed. This series shows why Certified Celebrants are a growing trend as officiants for funerals and memorial services.

After Tragedy, Nonbelievers Find Other Ways to Cope looks at the clash between atheists and the religious in the face of death, especially tragic, untimely ends.

Many have long turned to religion for solace in the aftermath of a tragedy, but that’s not an option for the nonreligious or those whose faith is destroyed by the event. For the nonreligious, dealing with trauma and loss often requires forging one’s own path.

One-fifth of Americans are religiously unaffiliated — higher than at any time in recent U.S. history — and those younger than 30 especially seem to be drifting from organized religion. A third of young Americans say they don’t belong to any religion.

More Young People are Moving Away from Religion, But Why? offers thoughtful interviews with young people about their growing distance from organized religion.

On Monday, the series started with The Growth of the ‘Nones.’ As religious as this country may be, many Americans are not religious at all. The group of religiously unaffiliated – dubbed “nones”— has been growing. One-fifth of Americans say they’re nones, as are one in three under 30. They’re socially liberal and aren’t looking for an organized religion.

In October, the Pew Research Center released a study, ‘Nones’ on the Rise, that takes a closer look at the 46 million people who answered none to the religion question in 2012. According to Pew, one-fifth of American adults have no religious affiliation, a trend that has for years been on the rise.

A growing group without religion has implications for funerals and memorial services. A major life change such as a death in the family calls for some sort of recognition. Religion has served to provide the rituals for the “matchings, hatchings and dispatchings” of our lives. Top hits and traffic to this blog come in for the information on religious funeral traditions.

A rise in a search for independent ways to mark end-of-life cycle transitions could happen, just as baby boomers wrote their own wedding vows. But death might not engender the same passion for self-styled ceremony as weddings do.

NPR’s series continues through the week. Tune in for more good reporting!

Update: Here’s a great Pearls Before Swine cartoon that adds commentary to the series.

P.S.: The series’ title refers to the R.E.M. song “Losing My Religion” released in 1991.

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