KB: Farewelling is a website and the website itself is. Give us a little tour of what you’re offering on Farewelling. JL: I love your website, I love what you are offering people, and it would be great if we started right off the top to get some idea. Karen Busen: Thank you so much for having us, we’re happy to be here. So Liz, Karen – welcome! I’m so happy to be talking with you today, straight from New York City! Live! You can check out their website after the podcast at: Together they’re transforming the experience of end-of-life planning. Karen came to the project with a solid career as a successful celebrity event planner, and Liz has been a funeral industry superstar. It helps users create meaningful memorial websites and live stream ceremonies. Farewelling is a one-stop online shop that is loaded with resources and easy to use tools for end-of-life planning. Today, I’m delighted to be talking with Karen Busen and Elizabeth Meyer Karansky, the cofounders of Farewelling.

If it has to do with death and dying, we’re talking about it. By turns illuminating, emotional, and darkly humorous, Good Mourning is a lesson in how the human heart grieves and grows-whether you're wearing this season's couture or drug-store flip-flops.Johanna Lunn: This is the When You Die podcast. Meyer has seen it all: two women who found out their deceased husband (yes, singular) was living a double life, a famous corpse with a missing brain, and funerals that cost more than most weddings. Starting as a receptionist, Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief, as well as creating fitting send-offs for some of the city's most high-powered residents. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City's Upper East Side-mixing big money, society drama, and the universal experience of grieving-told from the unique perspective of a fashionista turned funeral planner.Įlizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own father's funeral, which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music, thousands of dollars worth of her mother's favorite flowers, and a personalized eulogy.

Elizabeth Meyer's 'sweet, touching, and funny' (Booklist) memoir reads as if 'Carrie Bradshaw worked in a funeral home a la Six Feet Under' (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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