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.

DNA Data Storage Explained: Storing Digital Memories in DNA, What’s Real Today, and What’s Next - Funeral.com, Inc.

DNA Data Storage Explained: Storing Digital Memories in DNA, What’s Real Today, and What’s Next

Families have always tried to keep what matters close. Sometimes that means a quilt handed down through generations. Sometimes it’s a familiar recipe written in an old notebook. And very...

Smart Urns Explained: Screens, QR Codes, NFC, Apps, and the Privacy Questions to Ask - Funeral.com, Inc.

Smart Urns Explained: Screens, QR Codes, NFC, Apps, and the Privacy Questions to Ask

When a family chooses cremation, the questions often arrive in waves. First, there’s the immediate, practical “what happens next,” and then—sometimes days or weeks later—there’s the quieter realization that the...

Grief Support on Reddit: How to Use Online Forums Safely (and When to Step Back) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Grief Support on Reddit: How to Use Online Forums Safely (and When to Step Back)

In the middle of grief, time can feel strange. Nights stretch. Mornings arrive too quickly. The people who love you may not know what to say, and you may not...

How to Make a Digital Memorial Scrapbook in Canva: Templates, Printing, and Sharing - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Make a Digital Memorial Scrapbook in Canva: Templates, Printing, and Sharing

A few days after a loss, many families find themselves doing the same quiet work: opening phones and old photo boxes, rereading messages, and trying to gather pieces of a...

iPad Digital Guestbooks for Funerals: Best Setup, Apps, and Privacy Tips - Funeral.com, Inc.

iPad Digital Guestbooks for Funerals: Best Setup, Apps, and Privacy Tips

There is a moment at almost every memorial service when you can feel the room shift. People arrive holding their breath, trying to be respectful, trying to find the family,...

Cemetery DAOs and Web3 Memorials: How Decentralized Governance Could Shape Digital Plots - Funeral.com, Inc.

Cemetery DAOs and Web3 Memorials: How Decentralized Governance Could Shape Digital Plots

Grief has a way of making the future feel both urgent and far away. In the same afternoon, you might be choosing a service time, answering texts you can barely...

Digital Loot and Probate: Do Game Skins, Items, and Virtual Currency Have Estate Value? - Funeral.com, Inc.

Digital Loot and Probate: Do Game Skins, Items, and Virtual Currency Have Estate Value?

In a practical sense, a loved one’s “stuff” is no longer limited to what fits in a home. A phone can hold photo albums, bank accounts, subscriptions, and an entire...

Digital Vaults for Final Messages: Storing Voice Memos, Videos, and Instructions Securely - Funeral.com, Inc.

Digital Vaults for Final Messages: Storing Voice Memos, Videos, and Instructions Securely

Most families don’t lose a loved one’s final messages because they weren’t recorded. They lose them because they were recorded “somewhere,” and then that somewhere becomes surprisingly hard to reach....

iTunes and Apple Purchases After Death: Access, Licensing, and Digital Legacy Options - Funeral.com, Inc.

iTunes and Apple Purchases After Death: Access, Licensing, and Digital Legacy Options

When someone dies, there are the decisions you expect—phone calls, paperwork, a service (or a quiet goodbye), and the question of what comes next. And then there are the decisions...

VHS Digitizing Guide: How to Convert Tapes to Digital Without Losing Quality - Funeral.com, Inc.

VHS Digitizing Guide: How to Convert Tapes to Digital Without Losing Quality

If you have a box of old home movies on VHS, you are holding something that is both priceless and surprisingly fragile. The images can feel permanent because they have...

How to Save Voicemails as MP3: iPhone and Android Methods (Plus Backup Tips) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Save Voicemails as MP3: iPhone and Android Methods (Plus Backup Tips)

Some voicemails are just logistics. Others are a voice you would do anything to hear one more time. The problem is that voicemails are surprisingly fragile. They can disappear when...

Future Mourning Tech: Haptics and “Digital Touch”—Comfort, Risks, and What’s Real Today - Funeral.com, Inc.

Future Mourning Tech: Haptics and “Digital Touch”—Comfort, Risks, and What’s Real Today

There are moments in grief when the mind is busy with logistics, but the body is asking a simpler question: where can comfort land? Sometimes it’s the weight of a...

Holograms at Funerals and Eulogies: What’s Possible, What It Costs, and When It Feels Right - Funeral.com, Inc.

Holograms at Funerals and Eulogies: What’s Possible, What It Costs, and When It Feels Right

A funeral or celebration of life is one of the few gatherings where the room itself matters. People arrive carrying stories, guilt about what they didn’t say, gratitude for what...

Trolls and Cyberbullying on Memorial Pages: How to Protect Grieving Families Online - Funeral.com, Inc.

Trolls and Cyberbullying on Memorial Pages: How to Protect Grieving Families Online

In the first hours after a death, families often move through two realities at once: the private world of shock and the public world of notifications. A cousin shares a...

Tagging Someone Who Died on Social Media: Settings, Consent, and Kind Boundaries - Funeral.com, Inc.

Tagging Someone Who Died on Social Media: Settings, Consent, and Kind Boundaries

You open your phone and see their name—blue, clickable, familiar—attached to a post you weren’t prepared for. Maybe it’s a photo from years ago. Maybe it’s a birthday. Maybe it’s...

Is It Rude to Unfriend a Deceased Person? Digital Etiquette and Alternatives - Funeral.com, Inc.

Is It Rude to Unfriend a Deceased Person? Digital Etiquette and Alternatives

You’re scrolling through your phone on an ordinary day, and then it happens: a familiar face appears in your feed. Sometimes it’s a “memory” feature resurfacing an old photo. Sometimes...