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...

Drones at Funerals: Aerial Video, Tribute Moments, and the Rules to Know Before You Book

Drones at Funerals: Aerial Video, Tribute Moments, and the Rules to Know Before You Book

On some days, a family wants the world to stay small. A few chairs, a familiar song, the simple steadiness of being together. On other days, families want proof that...

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...

Virtual Reality Cemetery Visits: How VR Could Help You ‘Visit’ a Grave From Far Away

Virtual Reality Cemetery Visits: How VR Could Help You ‘Visit’ a Grave From Far Away

There are days when distance feels like a second loss. Not just miles on a map, but the feeling of being unable to do the small, grounding things that help...

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...

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,...

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...

How to Close an Uber Account After Someone Dies (Trips, Wallet, and Privacy) - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Close an Uber Account After Someone Dies (Trips, Wallet, and Privacy)

After someone dies, “small” tasks can turn out to be surprisingly important. A rideshare account may hold saved cards, addresses, and a detailed trip history—so it can create both financial...

QR Medallions on Graves: How Digital Links Work, Privacy Risks, and Cemetery Approval - Funeral.com, Inc.

QR Medallions on Graves: How Digital Links Work, Privacy Risks, and Cemetery Approval

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles in when you stand at a gravesite. Even when you know the name and the dates, there is often a feeling...

Memorial Videos: Easy Software Options and a Simple Workflow for Photo Slideshows - Funeral.com, Inc.

Memorial Videos: Easy Software Options and a Simple Workflow for Photo Slideshows

On the surface, a memorial video looks like a technical project: photos, music, captions, and a screen at the front of a room. In real life, it often begins much...

Online Memorial Walls (Kudoboard and Similar): How They Work, Costs, and Moderation Tips - Funeral.com, Inc.

Online Memorial Walls (Kudoboard and Similar): How They Work, Costs, and Moderation Tips

When someone you love dies, the first wave of decisions can feel relentless. You might be coordinating a service, answering messages, updating relatives who live hours away, and trying to...

VR and Remote Grave Visits: What’s Available Now and What the Future Might Look Like - Funeral.com, Inc.

VR and Remote Grave Visits: What’s Available Now and What the Future Might Look Like

There is a specific kind of ache that shows up when you want to stand at a graveside and you simply can’t. Sometimes it’s distance. Sometimes it’s health. Sometimes it’s...