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.

How to Transfer Genealogy Files After a Death: GEDCOM Exports, Media, and Account Ownership - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Transfer Genealogy Files After a Death: GEDCOM Exports, Media, and Account Ownership

When the person who managed your family tree dies, the loss is not only personal—it can feel like the family’s history is suddenly at risk. You might know there are...

Right to Be Forgotten in 2026: What the Laws Actually Allow (EU vs U.S.) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Right to Be Forgotten in 2026: What the Laws Actually Allow (EU vs U.S.)

In the first days after a death, families are asked to make decisions that are both deeply personal and unexpectedly public. A name appears online. An obituary is shared. A...

Are Video Wills Legal? What U.S. Law Typically Requires (and How Video Can Still Help) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Are Video Wills Legal? What U.S. Law Typically Requires (and How Video Can Still Help)

If you’ve ever watched someone record a “just in case” message on their phone, you already understand why families ask this question. A camera feels immediate. It feels clear. And...

Blockchain Wills and Smart Inheritance: What’s Legal Today and What’s Still Hype - Funeral.com, Inc.

Blockchain Wills and Smart Inheritance: What’s Legal Today and What’s Still Hype

When someone dies, support often arrives in the simplest ways people know: a meal at the door, a card in the mail, money sent quietly so the family can breathe....

Locked Phones After Someone Dies: Legal Options for Families (Without “Hacking”) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Locked Phones After Someone Dies: Legal Options for Families (Without “Hacking”)

When someone dies, their phone can feel like a small, sealed room that still contains their voice. It might hold the last photo they took, the contact list you suddenly...

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...

Can You Inherit Airline Miles? What Loyalty Programs Allow (and How to Plan) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Can You Inherit Airline Miles? What Loyalty Programs Allow (and How to Plan)

When someone dies, the practical tasks often arrive before the emotions have even settled. You might be coordinating a service, calling family members who need to travel, sorting through a...

Cyber Insurance for Estates and Executors: When It Helps (and What It May Not Cover) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Cyber Insurance for Estates and Executors: When It Helps (and What It May Not Cover)

When someone dies, the work that follows can feel oddly split between the deeply human and the intensely administrative. One minute you are choosing music for a service, answering texts...

Digital Executor Explained: Roles, Responsibilities, and a Checklist for Digital Assets - Funeral.com, Inc.

Digital Executor Explained: Roles, Responsibilities, and a Checklist for Digital Assets

In the first days after someone dies, the internet doesn’t stop. Bills keep charging. Two-factor codes keep arriving. A phone keeps lighting up with reminders that feel both practical and...

Organizing Files to Reduce Clutter: A Simple System for Paper and Digital Documents - Funeral.com, Inc.

Organizing Files to Reduce Clutter: A Simple System for Paper and Digital Documents

Clutter has a way of quietly raising the temperature in a home. It’s the stack of unopened mail you keep meaning to sort, the folder on your desktop labeled “IMPORTANT”...

Tele-Law and Zoom Court: What to Expect in Remote Hearings and How to Prepare - Funeral.com, Inc.

Tele-Law and Zoom Court: What to Expect in Remote Hearings and How to Prepare

A court date is stressful in the best of circumstances. If you’re grieving, managing paperwork, and trying to keep life moving, a zoom court hearing can feel like one more...

E-Signatures and Estate Documents: When DocuSign Works (and When You Still Need Wet Ink) - Funeral.com, Inc.

E-Signatures and Estate Documents: When DocuSign Works (and When You Still Need Wet Ink)

When someone dies—or when you are trying to plan ahead so your family will not be left guessing—paperwork has a way of showing up at the worst possible time. You...

Remote Online Notary: How It Works, What Documents Qualify, and Common Pitfalls - Funeral.com, Inc.

Remote Online Notary: How It Works, What Documents Qualify, and Common Pitfalls

When you are grieving, paperwork can feel like a second loss—forms to sign, authority to prove, deadlines to meet, and institutions that seem to speak a different language. In that...

Keeping a Pet Skull: Legal and Ethical Considerations and Safe, Respectful Cleaning Options - Funeral.com, Inc.

Keeping a Pet Skull: Legal and Ethical Considerations and Safe, Respectful Cleaning Options

There’s a particular kind of grief that shows up after a pet dies—quiet, domestic, and strangely physical. Their food bowl is still by the wall. The leash is still hung...

Home Burial and Neighbor Disputes: Zoning, Permits, and How to Handle Conflict Respectfully - Funeral.com, Inc.

Home Burial and Neighbor Disputes: Zoning, Permits, and How to Handle Conflict Respectfully

It often starts as a simple sentence spoken through grief: “We want to bring them home.” For some families, that means a plot on private land that has held generations...

Crypto Donations After a Death: How to Accept, Track, and Handle Taxes - Funeral.com, Inc.

Crypto Donations After a Death: How to Accept, Track, and Handle Taxes

In the first hours after a death, support often arrives in the most human ways: meals on the porch, text messages that don’t demand a reply, friends quietly handling pickups...