The Funeral.com Journal

Resources to help you create tributes as unique as the people (and pets) you love. Learn how engraving, photos, colors, and symbols add meaning; discover scattering rituals and at-home memorial ideas. We focus on the details that matter—because small choices can carry a lifetime of comfort.

How to Delete or Deactivate a Pinterest Account After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Delete or Deactivate a Pinterest Account After Someone Dies

The first time you open a loved one’s Pinterest after they’ve died, it can feel strangely intimate. The boards might be filled with holiday recipes you remember, garden ideas they...

How to Delete a Telegram Account After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Delete a Telegram Account After Someone Dies

In the first days after someone dies, the world feels split in two. One part is made of big, visible decisions—calling family, choosing a funeral home, setting dates, answering messages...

How to Delete a WhatsApp Account After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Delete a WhatsApp Account After Someone Dies

When someone dies, the silence can feel loud in unexpected places—like a phone that keeps lighting up with notifications, a chat thread that friends still message because they haven’t heard...

How to Report and Remove a Snapchat Account After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Report and Remove a Snapchat Account After Someone Dies

In the days after someone dies, there are the visible tasks—calls to family, decisions about services, the paperwork that arrives in thick envelopes. Then there are the quieter ones that...

The Emotional Toll of Home After‑Death Care: How to Prepare for the Physicality of Death - Funeral.com, Inc.

The Emotional Toll of Home After‑Death Care: How to Prepare for the Physicality of Death

In the hours after a death, a home can feel both sacred and unfamiliar. If you have chosen a home vigil—or you are simply present while a loved one is...

How to Close a YouTube Channel After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Close a YouTube Channel After Someone Dies

In the first days after a death, families often expect the hardest decisions to be the obvious ones: the phone calls, the paperwork, the memorial, the quiet moments when you...

How to Close or Memorialize a LinkedIn Profile After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Close or Memorialize a LinkedIn Profile After Someone Dies

In the days after a death, life splits into two tracks that don’t always feel like they belong together. On one track: the human work of grief—phone calls, photos, stories,...

How to Delete a TikTok Account After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Delete a TikTok Account After Someone Dies

It’s strange how grief can arrive in two different languages at the same time. One language is the heart: shock, love, disbelief, the quiet moments when you reach for your...

How to Deactivate an X (Twitter) Account After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Deactivate an X (Twitter) Account After Someone Dies

The first time you see a notification from someone who has died, it can feel like the world has tilted. A birthday reminder. A “new follower.” An old post resurfacing...

How to Delete or Memorialize an Instagram Account After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Delete or Memorialize an Instagram Account After Someone Dies

In the days after someone dies, the world doesn’t pause the way your body wishes it would. A phone still lights up. A “new follower” notification still appears. A friend...

Cryptocurrency Inheritance: How to Locate Wallets and Recover Access Legally - Funeral.com, Inc.

Cryptocurrency Inheritance: How to Locate Wallets and Recover Access Legally

After someone dies, families often expect the hard part to be paperwork: death certificates, phone calls, and a stack of accounts that need to be closed or transferred. Crypto adds...

How to Delete or Memorialize a Facebook Account After Someone Dies - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Delete or Memorialize a Facebook Account After Someone Dies

The first time a “Memories” notification appears after someone has died, it can feel like the internet is refusing to accept reality. A photo resurfaces. A birthday reminder pops up....

Virtual Funerals on Zoom: Step-by-Step Setup, Privacy Settings, and Host Checklist - Funeral.com, Inc.

Virtual Funerals on Zoom: Step-by-Step Setup, Privacy Settings, and Host Checklist

A zoom funeral or virtual memorial service Zoom can feel surprisingly intimate. When travel isn’t possible, when health concerns make gathering complicated, or when family is spread across time zones,...

Right to Be Forgotten in 2026: What the Laws Actually Allow (EU vs U.S.) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Right to Be Forgotten in 2026: What the Laws Actually Allow (EU vs U.S.)

In the first days after a death, families are asked to make decisions that are both deeply personal and unexpectedly public. A name appears online. An obituary is shared. A...

Hacking the Deceased: Identity Theft Risks After Death and How Families Can Prevent It - Funeral.com, Inc.

Hacking the Deceased: Identity Theft Risks After Death and How Families Can Prevent It

In the first days after a death, families do what families have always done: they gather, they make calls, they try to honor a life, and they try to keep...

Blockchain Wills and Smart Inheritance: What’s Legal Today and What’s Still Hype - Funeral.com, Inc.

Blockchain Wills and Smart Inheritance: What’s Legal Today and What’s Still Hype

When someone dies, support often arrives in the simplest ways people know: a meal at the door, a card in the mail, money sent quietly so the family can breathe....