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.

Augmented Reality Memorials: Using AR to Share Life Stories at Gravesites (and What’s Next)

Augmented Reality Memorials: Using AR to Share Life Stories at Gravesites (and What’s Next)

There are places that hold a kind of silence you can feel. A cemetery in late afternoon. A small family plot where the ground is still new. A veteran’s section...

Memorials in the Metaverse: Virtual Cemeteries, Online Shrines, and Digital Grief Spaces

Memorials in the Metaverse: Virtual Cemeteries, Online Shrines, and Digital Grief Spaces

In the hours and days after a death, many families discover something unexpected: grief now has an address. Sometimes it is a familiar one—an old voicemail saved on a phone,...

When Alexa or Siri Still Calls Their Name: Updating Voice Assistants and Smart Routines After a Death

When Alexa or Siri Still Calls Their Name: Updating Voice Assistants and Smart Routines After a Death

It can happen on an ordinary morning. You’re standing in the kitchen, the house is quiet in the particular way it becomes quiet after a loss, and then a smart...

Hologram Eulogies: Recording a 3D Message for Your Own Funeral (How the Tech Works)

Hologram Eulogies: Recording a 3D Message for Your Own Funeral (How the Tech Works)

There’s a moment that arrives for many families—sometimes quietly, sometimes all at once—when the conversation shifts from “What happened?” to “What do we do now?” In the past, that moment...

AI Grief Bots: Talking to a Digital Version of a Loved One (Technology, Benefits, and Concerns)

AI Grief Bots: Talking to a Digital Version of a Loved One (Technology, Benefits, and Concerns)

In the first weeks after a death, many families describe the same strange moment: you reach for your phone to text them, or you half-expect their name to appear on...

Deepfakes of the Deceased: Ethics, Consent, and the Risks of AI Recreation

Deepfakes of the Deceased: Ethics, Consent, and the Risks of AI Recreation

Not long after a death, families often find themselves in two worlds at once. One world is intensely practical: phone calls, paperwork, decisions about disposition, and the quiet question of...

Crypto After Death: Managing Bitcoin, NFTs, and Digital Collectibles in an Estate

Crypto After Death: Managing Bitcoin, NFTs, and Digital Collectibles in an Estate

After a death, families often discover that the hardest problems aren’t always emotional or ceremonial. Sometimes they’re technical. A bank account can be unlocked with paperwork. A phone bill can...

Interactive Memorial Holograms: What the Tech Could Look Like (and Ethical Questions to Ask)

Interactive Memorial Holograms: What the Tech Could Look Like (and Ethical Questions to Ask)

In the weeks after a death, families often describe the same strange contrast: there is so much to decide, and yet so much that can’t be decided at all. You...

Virtual Reality Memorials: Using VR and 360° Video to Preserve Places, Stories, and Memories

Virtual Reality Memorials: Using VR and 360° Video to Preserve Places, Stories, and Memories

After a death, families often discover that memory arrives in two ways at once. There’s the vivid, internal kind—the laugh you can still hear, the way they took their coffee,...

Pre-Planning Your Funeral Online: Tools, Services, and What to Compare Before You Commit - Funeral.com, Inc.

Pre-Planning Your Funeral Online: Tools, Services, and What to Compare Before You Commit

It often starts quietly. A late-night search. A tab left open after reading a friend’s post about their parent’s funeral. A moment when you realize that if something happened tomorrow,...

How to Create a Digital Vault for Passwords and 2FA Before You Die - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Create a Digital Vault for Passwords and 2FA Before You Die

The first time a family gets stuck, it rarely looks dramatic. It looks like a phone that won’t unlock. A laptop that keeps asking for a password nobody knows. A...

AI Grief Bots: The Ethics of “Talking” to the Dead - Funeral.com, Inc.

AI Grief Bots: The Ethics of “Talking” to the Dead

There’s a particular kind of silence that settles in after a death—after the calls, after the casseroles, after the first week when time feels both frozen and fast. For many...

Instagram Memorialization vs. Deletion: Which Should You Choose? - Funeral.com, Inc.

Instagram Memorialization vs. Deletion: Which Should You Choose?

In the first days after a death, families often move between two worlds at once. One world is paperwork, phone calls, and decisions that feel strangely practical in the middle...

What Is a Facebook Legacy Contact (and How to Set It Up) - Funeral.com, Inc.

What Is a Facebook Legacy Contact (and How to Set It Up)

In the days after a death, families often discover that grief comes with a second kind of work: closing loops. Phone calls. Paperwork. Decisions about services. And then, quietly, the...

How to Livestream a Funeral: Tech Setup, Privacy, and Including Remote Guests - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Livestream a Funeral: Tech Setup, Privacy, and Including Remote Guests

When someone you love dies, distance can feel like a second loss layered on top of the first. A cousin who can’t get a flight in time. A grandparent whose...

Digital Funeral Planning Tools: Apps and Websites to Organize Arrangements Online - Funeral.com, Inc.

Digital Funeral Planning Tools: Apps and Websites to Organize Arrangements Online

When someone dies, the hard part is not that there are “too many decisions.” The hard part is that decisions, documents, and emotions all land at the same time. A...