Happening tomorrow: frozen dead guys festival

Tomorrow, in Nederland, Colo., thousands of folks will gather for the Frozen Dead Guys Festival . It’s in honor of people who freeze their bodies when they die, but really it’s an excuse for a music/artsy festival in the cold of winter.

I heard about the festival from Gail Rubin, author of A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die. She takes a humurous spin on death and gets away with it, because she gets a serious message across — the need to preplan.

Last year at the festival, she debuted her The Newly-Dead Game based on the Newlywed Game TV show. Couples try to guess each other’s last wishes, such as “what song does he/she want at the funeral?”

This EndNotes blog leads to some interesting places, for sure.