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.

Scattering Ashes on BLM Land: Bureau of Land Management Rules, Permits, and Best Practices - Funeral.com, Inc.

Scattering Ashes on BLM Land: Bureau of Land Management Rules, Permits, and Best Practices

When someone you love dies, the desire to return them to a place that meant something is often immediate and very clear. For many families, that place is public land:...

Types of Ash-Holding Jewelry: Screws, Gaskets, and Closure Styles - Funeral.com, Inc.

Types of Ash-Holding Jewelry: Screws, Gaskets, and Closure Styles

When families look at cremation jewelry, they are rarely shopping for “a necklace.” They are usually trying to solve something quieter and more personal: how to carry love forward in...

Cleaning Ash Jewelry Safely: What to Use and What to Avoid - Funeral.com, Inc.

Cleaning Ash Jewelry Safely: What to Use and What to Avoid

If you wear cremation jewelry, you already understand something most people don’t: the object is small, but the meaning is not. An ashes necklace can look like an ordinary pendant...

Storing Ash Jewelry: How to Keep It Secure When Not Worn - Funeral.com, Inc.

Storing Ash Jewelry: How to Keep It Secure When Not Worn

Most people buy cremation jewelry for a simple reason: it makes the day-to-day feel a little less empty. A pendant can become the “quiet companion” you reach for on a...

Travel and Ash Jewelry: Airport Screening and Packing Strategies - Funeral.com, Inc.

Travel and Ash Jewelry: Airport Screening and Packing Strategies

Travel can be hard for reasons you cannot always predict. When you are carrying grief with you, even the most ordinary trip can feel different—especially if you are traveling with...

Ash Jewelry for Sensitive Skin: Understanding Plating and Reactions - Funeral.com, Inc.

Ash Jewelry for Sensitive Skin: Understanding Plating and Reactions

When a family chooses cremation jewelry, it is rarely because they are trying to “buy something.” Most of the time, it is a tender, practical decision made in the middle...

Where Can You Scatter Ashes in Alabama (2026)? Laws for Parks, Beaches, Private Land, and Water - Funeral.com, Inc.

Where Can You Scatter Ashes in Alabama (2026)? Laws for Parks, Beaches, Private Land, and Water

There is a particular kind of quiet that follows cremation. The appointments are over, the certificates are filed, and what remains is both tangible and deeply emotional: a container in...

Ash-Infused Portrait Paintings: Using Cremains in Art Safely and Respectfully - Funeral.com, Inc.

Ash-Infused Portrait Paintings: Using Cremains in Art Safely and Respectfully

There is a particular kind of quiet that shows up after the practical steps are finished. The calls have been made. The paperwork is signed. The service has happened (or...

Aerial Ash Scattering: How It Works, Planning a Respectful Flight, and What to Know About Safety and Rules - Funeral.com, Inc.

Aerial Ash Scattering: How It Works, Planning a Respectful Flight, and What to Know About Safety and Rules

There are some goodbyes that do not fit neatly into a chapel or a graveside. Sometimes the place that feels most true is a ridgeline you cannot hike to anymore,...

Ashes in Tattoo Ink: Safety, Sterility, and What to Ask Before You Get an “Ash Tattoo” - Funeral.com, Inc.

Ashes in Tattoo Ink: Safety, Sterility, and What to Ask Before You Get an “Ash Tattoo”

A memorial tattoo can feel like a promise you keep with your body: a name, a date, a symbol, a line of handwriting you want to see on hard days....

Pressing Ashes Into Vinyl Records: Memorial Music, Process Overview, and What to Expect - Funeral.com, Inc.

Pressing Ashes Into Vinyl Records: Memorial Music, Process Overview, and What to Expect

There are some memories that arrive through words, and others that arrive through sound. A chord progression that takes you back to a kitchen dance party. A song that was...

Ashes in Fireworks: ‘Heavenly Stars’ Memorial Displays—How They Work and What to Know - Funeral.com, Inc.

Ashes in Fireworks: ‘Heavenly Stars’ Memorial Displays—How They Work and What to Know

There is a particular kind of grief that doesn’t want to whisper. It wants to honor someone who lived loudly, loved fiercely, or simply made ordinary days feel electric. For...

Balloon Ash Scattering: High-Altitude Release, Environmental Concerns, and Better Alternatives - Funeral.com, Inc.

Balloon Ash Scattering: High-Altitude Release, Environmental Concerns, and Better Alternatives

When a family is grieving, it makes sense to want something that feels clear and symbolic. That is why balloon ash scattering is often marketed as a kind of “lifted”...

Drone Ash Scattering: A New Option for Hard-to-Reach Places (Safety, Limits, and Etiquette) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Drone Ash Scattering: A New Option for Hard-to-Reach Places (Safety, Limits, and Etiquette)

When someone you love is cremated, the question that follows is often quieter than people expect. It is not only “Where should we go?” It is also “How do we...

Casting Ashes to the Wind: How to Scatter Safely, Respectfully, and Without Getting “Downwind” - Funeral.com, Inc.

Casting Ashes to the Wind: How to Scatter Safely, Respectfully, and Without Getting “Downwind”

Wind scattering has a certain honesty to it. There’s no elaborate equipment, no long program, no sense that you need to “perform” grief correctly. It can be a quiet release...

Raking Ashes Into Flower Beds: The Safest Way to Blend Cremains Into Soil for Planting - Funeral.com, Inc.

Raking Ashes Into Flower Beds: The Safest Way to Blend Cremains Into Soil for Planting

There’s a particular kind of peace that comes from imagining a memorial that grows. A flower bed that returns each spring can feel more honest than anything that sits on...