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.

Organ Donation and Funeral Timing: How Donation Can Affect Viewing, Cremation, and Scheduling

Organ Donation and Funeral Timing: How Donation Can Affect Viewing, Cremation, and Scheduling

In the hours after a death, families are asked to absorb grief and make decisions at the same time. When organ or tissue donation is part of the story, it...

Body Donation to Science: Eligibility, What Happens, and How to Communicate Your Wishes

Body Donation to Science: Eligibility, What Happens, and How to Communicate Your Wishes

The call usually comes at the worst possible time—when a family is still trying to understand what just happened. A nurse, a hospice coordinator, or a loved one at home...

Body Donation and Cremation: What Families Should Understand - Funeral.com, Inc.

Body Donation and Cremation: What Families Should Understand

In many families, the conversation begins quietly. Someone mentions they want to contribute to medical learning, to help future patients, to make their final chapter meaningful in a way that...

Organ Donation and Cremation: How the Timeline Typically Works - Funeral.com, Inc.

Organ Donation and Cremation: How the Timeline Typically Works

When a loved one dies and organ or tissue donation is part of their wishes, families often feel two pressures at once: grief, and the clock. Donation happens quickly after...

Mayo Clinic Body Donation Program: How to Register, What’s Required, and Common Reasons for Refusal - Funeral.com, Inc.

Mayo Clinic Body Donation Program: How to Register, What’s Required, and Common Reasons for Refusal

Most families don’t start thinking about whole-body donation on an easy day. Sometimes it comes after years of living with a diagnosis, when a person wants their final chapter to...

Kennedy Terminal Ulcer: How It Differs From Preventable Pressure Injuries - Funeral.com, Inc.

Kennedy Terminal Ulcer: How It Differs From Preventable Pressure Injuries

Sometimes, near the end of life, families find themselves learning a new medical vocabulary they never wanted to know. One of the most unsettling phrases you might hear is Kennedy terminal...

Organ Donation and Body Donation to Science: How They Affect Funeral and Cremation Plans - Funeral.com, Inc.

Organ Donation and Body Donation to Science: How They Affect Funeral and Cremation Plans

When you say yes to donation, you are really saying two things at once: “I want to help someone after I’m gone,” and “I still want my family to have...