Recent Entries

• Death certificate basics

  by Noha Waibsnaider December 11, 2018
  What happens when someone dies can take many different forms — religious funeral or secular? Open-casket memorial or closed? Small, family-only gathering or one open to the community? Formal obituary, or heartfelt, or funny? Traditional burial, or green burial, or cremation? However you enact ...

• Five Lessons from an 80's themed Celebration of Life

  by Noha Waibsnaider December 4, 2018
  Author: Christina Andreola is the founder of New Narrative Memorials, an event planning company dedicated to planning and managing the details of End of Life events. Christina works with families to determine event details and then takes the lead in communicating with venues, caterers, florists, and...

• The 5 Guidelines of a Eulogy

  by Noha Waibsnaider September 25, 2018
    1: Tell a story 2: Make it meaningful 3: Not too meaningful 4: Make it personal, but not necessarily to your person 5: Be respectful— a Eulogy is not a roast   So you’ve been tasked with writing a Eulogy?  You have earned the challenging honor of standing up in ...

• Why GatheringUs?

  by Noha Waibsnaider June 19, 2018
  Welcome to the GatheringUs blog, where we go through the nuances and details of preparing to celebrate the life of your loved one. Here, we drill down on particular topics, such as writing the obituary, personalizing the ceremony and eulogy, choosing the venue, and the challenges of family politics....