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.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Vermont (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Vermont (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

When you’re trying to make travel plans after a death, it can feel like every “simple” step comes with extra weight. You may be bringing a loved one home, traveling...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Virginia (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Virginia (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

If you’re in Virginia and trying to move cremated remains—whether for a service back home, a family gathering out of state, or a private goodbye that needs to happen somewhere...

Decorating a Cardboard Cremation Container: Safe Paints, Meaningful Art, and What to Avoid - Funeral.com, Inc.

Decorating a Cardboard Cremation Container: Safe Paints, Meaningful Art, and What to Avoid

Most families don’t expect the cremation container to become part of the story. It’s often described in plain, practical terms—an “alternative container,” sometimes a simple cardboard box—something you choose quickly...

Companion Urns: Two-Person Urns, Shared Memorials, and How Capacity Actually Works - Funeral.com, Inc.

Companion Urns: Two-Person Urns, Shared Memorials, and How Capacity Actually Works

Most families don’t begin by searching for a “companion urn.” They begin with a simpler, heavier sentence: we want to stay together. For spouses, partners, or two people whose lives...

Winter Home Burial: Planning for Frozen Ground, Equipment, and Safe Alternatives - Funeral.com, Inc.

Winter Home Burial: Planning for Frozen Ground, Equipment, and Safe Alternatives

When a death happens in winter, grief arrives alongside a second reality: the ground may not be ready to receive anyone. Families who hope for a home burial often imagine...

Vanitas Still Life: Why Rotting Fruit, Wilting Flowers, and Skulls Show Up in ‘Death Art’ - Funeral.com, Inc.

Vanitas Still Life: Why Rotting Fruit, Wilting Flowers, and Skulls Show Up in ‘Death Art’

There’s a particular kind of quiet you feel when you stand in front of a vanitas still life. The room may be full of people, but your attention narrows to...

Transport Permits After a Death: When You Can Move the Body Yourself (and When You Can’t) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Transport Permits After a Death: When You Can Move the Body Yourself (and When You Can’t)

The hours after a death can feel unreal: the quiet in the room, the small decisions that suddenly carry enormous weight, the sense that time has both stopped and started...

Doorway Width for Body Removal: Clearance, Turns, and Stairs for Home Death Care - Funeral.com, Inc.

Doorway Width for Body Removal: Clearance, Turns, and Stairs for Home Death Care

When someone dies at home, the first hours can feel both intimate and unreal. There may be a hush in the house that’s unlike any other quiet you’ve known—gentle, heavy,...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Alaska (2026): TSA, USPS Shipping Rules, and Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Alaska (2026): TSA, USPS Shipping Rules, and Major Airports

When you’re leaving Alaska with a loved one’s cremated remains, it can feel like you’re carrying something both deeply personal and strangely logistical at the same time. You want the...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Arizona (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Arizona (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

When a family needs to travel with someone they love, the logistics can feel strangely heavy. There is the emotion, and then there are the details that suddenly matter: which...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Alabama (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Alabama (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

When you’re carrying someone’s cremated remains, the logistics can feel strangely intense. It’s not just travel. It’s a responsibility. And in Alabama—whether you’re leaving from Birmingham, heading out of Huntsville,...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Alaska (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Alaska (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

If you are reading this, you are probably carrying something that feels heavier than it looks: a small container of cremated remains, and the responsibility to get it to the...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Washington (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Washington (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

After a cremation, there’s often a moment that catches families off guard. The paperwork quiets down, the phone stops ringing, and then real life shows up with a practical question:...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From West Virginia (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From West Virginia (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

There’s a particular kind of pressure that shows up when you’re responsible for transporting cremated remains. You may be grieving, you may be helping someone else grieve, and yet you’re...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Wisconsin (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Wisconsin (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

If you are reading this, you may be carrying two things at once: the practical need to move cremated remains from one place to another, and the emotional weight of...

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Wyoming (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports - Funeral.com, Inc.

Flying or Shipping Ashes From Wyoming (2026): TSA Rules, USPS Shipping & Major Airports

If you are reading this, you are probably juggling two very different kinds of weight at the same time: grief, and logistics. Transporting cremated remains can feel intimidating because it...