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.

Smart Contracts in Insurance: How Automated Claims Work (and the Oracle Problem) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Smart Contracts in Insurance: How Automated Claims Work (and the Oracle Problem)

When you’re doing funeral planning, insurance can feel like the “later” problem—something you’ll deal with after the hard parts are over. But for many families, it becomes immediate: a policy...

Locked Phones After Someone Dies: Legal Options for Families (Without “Hacking”) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Locked Phones After Someone Dies: Legal Options for Families (Without “Hacking”)

When someone dies, their phone can feel like a small, sealed room that still contains their voice. It might hold the last photo they took, the contact list you suddenly...

Face ID After Death: What Families Should Know About iPhone Biometric Locks - Funeral.com, Inc.

Face ID After Death: What Families Should Know About iPhone Biometric Locks

There is a particular kind of frustration that shows up in the first days after a death. You are already carrying grief, phone calls, and decisions, and then one ordinary...

What Happens to Steam Accounts After Death? Inheritance Limits and Safer Ways to Plan Ahead - Funeral.com, Inc.

What Happens to Steam Accounts After Death? Inheritance Limits and Safer Ways to Plan Ahead

Most families don’t expect a video game account to become part of end-of-life logistics. And yet it happens all the time: someone passes away, the household is already juggling calls,...

Esports Tributes After a Death: Memorial Matches, Jerseys, and Community Support Ideas - Funeral.com, Inc.

Esports Tributes After a Death: Memorial Matches, Jerseys, and Community Support Ideas

When a loss touches an esports community, the grief can move at the speed of the internet. A teammate’s name starts trending. A fan server fills with messages. A tournament...

YouTube Monetization After a Creator Dies: AdSense, Payouts, and Account Access Options - Funeral.com, Inc.

YouTube Monetization After a Creator Dies: AdSense, Payouts, and Account Access Options

When a creator dies, the first days can feel unreal. Friends and subscribers may be leaving tributes in the comments while the family is still trying to answer basic questions:...

Canceling Patreon After a Death: Stopping Charges, Closing Pages, and Preserving Content - Funeral.com, Inc.

Canceling Patreon After a Death: Stopping Charges, Closing Pages, and Preserving Content

There’s a particular kind of stress that shows up after a death: the quiet, ongoing kind. It’s the email receipt that lands in an inbox no one is checking. It’s...

Reporting a Deceased Person on Dating Apps: How to Remove Profiles and Protect Their Privacy - Funeral.com, Inc.

Reporting a Deceased Person on Dating Apps: How to Remove Profiles and Protect Their Privacy

Seeing a loved one’s dating profile after they’ve died can feel like a jolt to the body. It can be grief all over again—especially when the profile looks current, shows...

Do You Really Own Kindle Books? Licensing, Family Access, and What Happens After Death - Funeral.com, Inc.

Do You Really Own Kindle Books? Licensing, Family Access, and What Happens After Death

After someone dies, families often expect to handle “the big things” first: the service, the paperwork, the phone calls, the home. Then the quieter questions arrive—the ones nobody prepared you...

iTunes and Apple Purchases After Death: Access, Licensing, and Digital Legacy Options - Funeral.com, Inc.

iTunes and Apple Purchases After Death: Access, Licensing, and Digital Legacy Options

When someone dies, there are the decisions you expect—phone calls, paperwork, a service (or a quiet goodbye), and the question of what comes next. And then there are the decisions...

Pre-Death Declutter Checklist: A Practical Plan to Lighten the Load for Your Family - Funeral.com, Inc.

Pre-Death Declutter Checklist: A Practical Plan to Lighten the Load for Your Family

Decluttering before death is not about “getting rid of your life.” It is about making fewer hard decisions land on the shoulders of the people who love you. When families...

How to Transfer a Tesla After Someone Dies: Account, App Access, and Factory Reset Steps - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Transfer a Tesla After Someone Dies: Account, App Access, and Factory Reset Steps

After someone dies, families often discover that a Tesla is different from other vehicles in one important way: day-to-day “ownership” isn’t just a title document—it’s also a digital relationship managed...

Resetting Smart Home Devices After a Death or Move: A Step-by-Step Safety Guide - Funeral.com, Inc.

Resetting Smart Home Devices After a Death or Move: A Step-by-Step Safety Guide

When someone dies or a household changes hands, families are asked to do a lot of practical work while emotions are still raw. It can feel strange to be thinking...

AI Voice Synthesis After Death: Consent, Ethics, and Safer Ways to Preserve a Voice - Funeral.com, Inc.

AI Voice Synthesis After Death: Consent, Ethics, and Safer Ways to Preserve a Voice

When someone dies, the world gets quieter in ways people don’t expect. It is not only the silence in a house after visitors leave, or the gap in a daily...

What Happens to an Airbnb Host Account When Someone Dies? A Family Checklist - Funeral.com, Inc.

What Happens to an Airbnb Host Account When Someone Dies? A Family Checklist

When someone dies, the internet does not pause with the rest of life. Guests still arrive, automatic messages still send, payouts still process, and calendars still accept new bookings unless...

Digital Art Copyright After Death: Who Owns It and How Long It Lasts - Funeral.com, Inc.

Digital Art Copyright After Death: Who Owns It and How Long It Lasts

For many digital artists, the most valuable part of a career is not a single “final” piece. It is a body of work that keeps living: images that get shared,...