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.

Choosing the Right Urn for Pet Ashes: Sizes, Styles, and Personalization Options

Choosing the Right Urn for Pet Ashes: Sizes, Styles, and Personalization Options

When a beloved dog or cat dies, the first wave of grief is usually about the loss itself: the quiet house, the empty bed, the missing collar on the hook....

How Do I Choose the Right Size Urn for My Pet?

How Do I Choose the Right Size Urn for My Pet?

When you first start looking at pet urns for ashes, it is easy to focus on color, shape, and style. Perhaps you see one that feels exactly like your dog’s...

Can I Put Some Ashes in Jewelry and Use the Rest in an Urn or Scattering?

Can I Put Some Ashes in Jewelry and Use the Rest in an Urn or Scattering?

When it comes to honoring your pet, there are many ways to keep their memory close. You may want a pet urn for ashes at home as a comforting presence,...

What Is the Difference Between an Urn, a Keepsake Urn, and Cremation Jewelry?

What Is the Difference Between an Urn, a Keepsake Urn, and Cremation Jewelry?

When you begin exploring ways to remember a pet after cremation, you quickly encounter terms like pet urns, keepsake urns, and cremation jewelry. At first glance, they all seem like...

How to Choose a Pet Urn or Memorial: A Simple Guide When You’re Grieving

How to Choose a Pet Urn or Memorial: A Simple Guide When You’re Grieving

Choosing a pet urn or memorial can feel both impossibly small and overwhelmingly huge at the same time. It is “just” an object, and yet it may become the way...

Choosing a Pet Urn: Sizes, Materials, and What Fits Your Pet’s Ashes

Choosing a Pet Urn: Sizes, Materials, and What Fits Your Pet’s Ashes

There comes a moment, often a week or two after a pet passes, when the grief that once felt unshaped begins to settle into a new, quieter rhythm. You might...

Creating a Pet Memorial Corner: Photos, Urns, Keepsakes, and Rituals

Creating a Pet Memorial Corner: Photos, Urns, Keepsakes, and Rituals

There is a moment in grief when you walk through your home and feel the unmistakable shape of absence. The bed remains, the sofa is still there, the same light...

Keeping a Portion of Ashes in a Keepsake Urn: Why Many Families Choose This

Keeping a Portion of Ashes in a Keepsake Urn: Why Many Families Choose This

When a pet is cremated and the ashes arrive home, they often feel heavier than expected, not in weight, but in meaning. You open the temporary container and see what...

Epitaph Examples: Gentle Words for Urns, Headstones, and Jewelry

Epitaph Examples: Gentle Words for Urns, Headstones, and Jewelry

There’s a moment in funeral planning that rarely gets discussed. The phone calls have been made, the service is outlined, you’ve chosen between burial and cremation, and then someone hands...

What Is an Urn Used For? A Gentle Guide to Modern Memorials

What Is an Urn Used For? A Gentle Guide to Modern Memorials

When someone you love is cremated, the first question is rarely about products or prices. It’s quieter, more emotional: what is an urn actually for, and how can it honor...

Pet Urns & Pet Keepsake Jewelry: Choosing a Memorial That Feels Right

Pet Urns & Pet Keepsake Jewelry: Choosing a Memorial That Feels Right

The absence of a beloved pet changes the rhythm of a home. A familiar silence settles in places where their presence once lived, and small objects, a bowl, a favorite...

Cremation Urns, Pet Urns, and Cremation Jewelry: A Practical Guide for Real Families

Cremation Urns, Pet Urns, and Cremation Jewelry: A Practical Guide for Real Families

The moment a loved one passes, families are faced with a mix of practical and emotional decisions. Cremation brings choices that extend beyond paperwork, deciding where ashes will live, how...

Companion Urns and Double Headstones: Planning Memorials for Two People

Companion Urns and Double Headstones: Planning Memorials for Two People

Honoring the bond between two people in life can extend meaningfully into their memorials, creating a lasting tribute that reflects the depth of their relationship. Companion urns and double headstones...

Choosing a Pet Urn for Ashes: How to Make It Feel Like Them

Choosing a Pet Urn for Ashes: How to Make It Feel Like Them

When a beloved pet passes away at home, the moment can feel surreal. One instant, you are hearing the soft thud of paws across the floor, feeling the warm weight...

Caring for Cremation Urns: Cleaning, Display, and Long-Term Protection

Caring for Cremation Urns: Cleaning, Display, and Long-Term Protection

Caring for your loved one’s cremation urn is a meaningful way to honor their memory and preserve a tangible connection to their life. An urn is more than just a...

Cremation Urns, Pet Urns, and Cremation Jewelry: A Gentle Guide to Your Options

Cremation Urns, Pet Urns, and Cremation Jewelry: A Gentle Guide to Your Options

When a loved one passes, whether a person or a pet, you are suddenly faced with choices you never expected to make. One of the most personal is deciding what...