Planning Your Funeral

Posted on Apr 28, 2010 | 0 comments

Talking about your own funeral isn’t the most comfortable discussion with someone. Through my life, however, I have found that funerals project a multitude of important life lessons; some of these lessons apply to business as well.

While in high school, I spent 2+ years working for the local funeral home in a small, rural town. The first time that I drove the hearse alone I remember feeling a bit weird as I jammed to a rock-n-roll song on the radio. However, the money was good and the opportunity to be excused from high school on funeral mornings was a nice perk, too.

Behind the scenes, I had the privilege to watch many different types of funerals as a third party bystander. I was witness to happy funerals, sad funerals, small funerals, large funerals, funerals from tragedy, life celebration funerals, and the occasional “super bowl” funeral.

A super bowl funeral was rare but occurred when the deceased had simply touched the lives of a countless number of people. In these situations, visitation hours were never long enough and the church it seemed needed to blow out its walls to accommodate an overwhelming number of funeral attendees.

What became clear was that living a life of impact is the ticket to hosting your own “super bowl”. Your life and your business are vehicles to impact other humans in a positive manner. If God turns your page today, will there be a super bowl three days from now?