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.

LinkedIn Ghost Profiles: How to Report a Death, Memorialize, or Close the Account - Funeral.com, Inc.

LinkedIn Ghost Profiles: How to Report a Death, Memorialize, or Close the Account

A few weeks after someone dies, the world keeps moving in ways that can feel strangely sharp. A calendar reminder pings. A bank statement arrives. And sometimes, a LinkedIn notification...

Can You Inherit Airline Miles When Your Spouse Dies? What’s Legal vs. What Airlines Allow - Funeral.com, Inc.

Can You Inherit Airline Miles When Your Spouse Dies? What’s Legal vs. What Airlines Allow

In the days after a death, life gets divided into two kinds of tasks: the ones that feel sacred, and the ones that feel strangely administrative. You might be choosing...

Can You Be Buried on Your Own Property? A 50-State Guide to Home Burial Laws - Funeral.com, Inc.

Can You Be Buried on Your Own Property? A 50-State Guide to Home Burial Laws

The question usually arrives quietly, sometimes in the middle of a hard week and sometimes years before anyone dies: “Could we bring them home?” For some families, the idea of...

NFT Inheritance: How to Transfer Digital Art After Death (Wallets, Marketplaces & Probate) - Funeral.com, Inc.

NFT Inheritance: How to Transfer Digital Art After Death (Wallets, Marketplaces & Probate)

The first week after a death rarely feels like the movies. It’s paperwork and phone calls. It’s a quiet house with a loud inbox. It’s a family trying to choose...

Digital Dust: How to Clean Up a Deceased Person’s Browser History (Without Losing Important Records) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Digital Dust: How to Clean Up a Deceased Person’s Browser History (Without Losing Important Records)

After someone dies, the first days can feel like a blur of phone calls, forms, and small decisions that arrive too quickly. In the middle of that, you might open...

Stop the Bleed: How to Cancel Subscriptions When You Can’t Log In (and Stop Charges) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Stop the Bleed: How to Cancel Subscriptions When You Can’t Log In (and Stop Charges)

It usually starts with something small: a $9.99 receipt email you don’t recognize, or a bank alert that feels out of place in an already hard week. Then you look...

Managing a Deceased Influencer’s Monetized Accounts: A Practical Executor Playbook - Funeral.com, Inc.

Managing a Deceased Influencer’s Monetized Accounts: A Practical Executor Playbook

When someone dies who built a living online, grief comes with a strange second language: logins, payouts, brand contracts, subscription renewals, and notifications that keep arriving as if nothing happened....

How to Access a Deceased Loved One’s Apple Account Without the Password - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Access a Deceased Loved One’s Apple Account Without the Password

After someone dies, the hardest tasks often arrive quietly: a phone you can’t unlock, a photo library you’re afraid to lose, an iCloud account that keeps asking for a code...

The 2026 Checklist for Closing a Deceased Person’s Digital Life - Funeral.com, Inc.

The 2026 Checklist for Closing a Deceased Person’s Digital Life

In the first days after someone dies, the hardest tasks aren’t always the ones you expect. Sometimes it’s not the funeral home call, the paperwork, or even the quiet in...

How to Transport a Body for Green Burial: Permits, Refrigeration & Legal Requirements - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Transport a Body for Green Burial: Permits, Refrigeration & Legal Requirements

When a family chooses a green burial, the decision is usually rooted in something simple: a desire to return a loved one to the earth with as little barrier as...

How to Download a Twitter (X) Archive After Someone Dies: What’s Possible (and What Isn’t) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Download a Twitter (X) Archive After Someone Dies: What’s Possible (and What Isn’t)

After someone dies, grief has a way of turning the everyday into the strange. A phone buzzes with a notification from a voice that no longer exists. A birthday reminder...

Aquamation (Water Cremation) in South Carolina (2026): Legal Status, Providers & Costs - Funeral.com, Inc.

Aquamation (Water Cremation) in South Carolina (2026): Legal Status, Providers & Costs

When a death happens—or when a family is planning ahead—decisions come quickly. Some are emotional (“What would they have wanted?”), and some are practical (“What can we afford, and how...

How to Close a Mercari Account After Someone Dies (Deactivate vs. Delete + Balance Withdrawal) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Close a Mercari Account After Someone Dies (Deactivate vs. Delete + Balance Withdrawal)

After someone dies, the world keeps sending notifications as if nothing happened. A package delivery alert. A “Rate your purchase” email. A reminder that a seller has shipped. For many...

How to Close a Depop Account After Someone Dies (Support Request for Immediate Family) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Close a Depop Account After Someone Dies (Support Request for Immediate Family)

In the days after a death, life becomes a strange mix of the deeply personal and the relentlessly practical. One moment you’re choosing who to call and what to do...

How to Close a Poshmark Account After Someone Dies (Redeemable Balance, Listings, and Payouts) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Close a Poshmark Account After Someone Dies (Redeemable Balance, Listings, and Payouts)

After someone dies, families often discover that grief has an “admin” side. It shows up as logins, notifications, shipping emails, and little alerts that keep arriving as if nothing changed....

How to Close a Wayfair Account After Someone Dies (Delete Request, Orders, and Refunds) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Close a Wayfair Account After Someone Dies (Delete Request, Orders, and Refunds)

After someone dies, the practical tasks can feel strangely urgent and strangely unreal at the same time. You might be choosing a funeral home, gathering paperwork, answering messages from relatives,...