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.

Grieving a Grandchild: The Double Heartbreak of Child Loss for Grandparents

Grieving a Grandchild: The Double Heartbreak of Child Loss for Grandparents

There are losses we expect to face as we age—friends, siblings, even parents if we’re among the last living in a generation. A grandchild’s death shatters that quiet expectation. It...

Choosing a Cremation Urn for a Baby or Child: Sizes, Styles, and Gentle Options - Funeral.com, Inc.

Choosing a Cremation Urn for a Baby or Child: Sizes, Styles, and Gentle Options

If you are choosing an urn for an infant or child, you are likely carrying two kinds of weight at once: grief, and responsibility. People sometimes assume an urn decision...

Planning a Child’s Funeral: What to Expect, Special Considerations, and Support Resources - Funeral.com, Inc.

Planning a Child’s Funeral: What to Expect, Special Considerations, and Support Resources

When a child dies, time can feel warped. Minutes crawl, but decisions appear fast and urgent: calls to make, paperwork to sign, family to notify, and the question of what...

Funeral Planning for Aging Parents: How Adult Children Can Start the Conversation - Funeral.com, Inc.

Funeral Planning for Aging Parents: How Adult Children Can Start the Conversation

Most adult children don’t avoid funeral planning because they’re careless. They avoid it because they’re trying to protect their parent from fear—and themselves from the ache of imagining life without...

Sibling Grief: The “Forgotten Mourners” (What Adults and Kids Need) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Sibling Grief: The “Forgotten Mourners” (What Adults and Kids Need)

When someone dies, families often move instinctively toward the relationships the world recognizes most easily: a spouse, a parent, a child. Even in loving families, that spotlight can unintentionally leave...

How to Talk to Toddlers About Death (Without Scary Metaphors) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Talk to Toddlers About Death (Without Scary Metaphors)

If you’re reading this, you’re probably trying to do two hard things at once: grieve (or support someone you love) and also figure out what to say to a very...

What Size Urn for a Baby or Child? Infant & Youth Urn Capacity Guide - Funeral.com, Inc.

What Size Urn for a Baby or Child? Infant & Youth Urn Capacity Guide

Choosing an urn after the loss of a baby or child can feel like a task you never should have had to learn. And yet families find themselves here every...

How to Include Kids in a Scattering Ceremony (Kids at Ash Scattering) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Include Kids in a Scattering Ceremony (Kids at Ash Scattering)

When families talk about including children in a scattering, they’re usually balancing two truths at the same time. One is practical: the day has real logistics—travel, weather, permission, a container,...

Helping Kids With Grief Through Minecraft: Gentle Builds, Rituals, and Safety Tips - Funeral.com, Inc.

Helping Kids With Grief Through Minecraft: Gentle Builds, Rituals, and Safety Tips

When a child is grieving, adults often look for the “right” words and the “right” moment. Most of the time, what kids really need is a safe way to keep...

Talking to a Child About Euthanasia and Cremation: Age-Appropriate Wording - Funeral.com, Inc.

Talking to a Child About Euthanasia and Cremation: Age-Appropriate Wording

When a family is facing a pet’s decline, adults often carry two kinds of grief at once. There’s the heartbreak of watching a beloved companion suffer, and there’s the quieter...

Miscarriage Grief for Fathers and Partners: How to Support, How to Mourn, and What to Say - Funeral.com, Inc.

Miscarriage Grief for Fathers and Partners: How to Support, How to Mourn, and What to Say

Miscarriage can rearrange your life in an instant. One moment you are imagining a future that felt increasingly real—appointments, names, dates on a calendar, a shift in identity that happens...

Infant & Child Urns: How to Choose the Right Size, Style, and Memorial Option (A Compassionate Guide) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Infant & Child Urns: How to Choose the Right Size, Style, and Memorial Option (A Compassionate Guide)

Choosing an urn after the death of a baby, infant, or child can feel impossibly heavy, especially because the decision is both practical and deeply emotional. It is not just...

Headstone Sayings for Babies and Children: Gentle Epitaph Ideas for Little Lives - Funeral.com, Inc.

Headstone Sayings for Babies and Children: Gentle Epitaph Ideas for Little Lives

There are parts of funeral planning that feel practical—paperwork, phone calls, timelines, decisions you can make with a steady hand. Choosing words for a baby’s or child’s headstone is not like...