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.

Funeral Planning From Afar: A Checklist for Next of Kin Who Live Out of Town

Funeral Planning From Afar: A Checklist for Next of Kin Who Live Out of Town

If you’re next of kin and you live far away, the hardest part often isn’t the distance itself. It’s the feeling that everything is happening without you while you’re trying...

First-Time Pallbearer Guide: Quick Tips to Honor the Role (and Stay Safe) - Funeral.com, Inc.

First-Time Pallbearer Guide: Quick Tips to Honor the Role (and Stay Safe)

The request can land in your lap at the exact wrong moment: a text from a family member, a quiet call from a friend, a funeral director asking for names....

Where to Buy Cremation Urns: Online Stores, Funeral Homes, and Amazon Tips - Funeral.com, Inc.

Where to Buy Cremation Urns: Online Stores, Funeral Homes, and Amazon Tips

If you are deciding where to buy cremation urns, you are not alone. Choosing cremation urns is one of those tasks that is both practical and emotional, and it often...

Color Symbolism Guide: What Colors Mean (and How to Use Them With Intention) - Funeral.com, Inc.

Color Symbolism Guide: What Colors Mean (and How to Use Them With Intention)

When you are choosing colors on purpose—whether for a room, a design, or a memorial item—you are doing something quietly powerful. You are translating feeling into something other people can...

Attending a Funeral at a Mosque: Janazah Etiquette for Non-Muslim Guests - Funeral.com, Inc.

Attending a Funeral at a Mosque: Janazah Etiquette for Non-Muslim Guests

You don’t have to be Muslim to be invited to a Muslim funeral. You just have to be someone who mattered to the person who died, or someone who matters...

Cremation Urn Size Guide: Capacity, Materials, and How to Choose the Right Adult Urn - Funeral.com, Inc.

Cremation Urn Size Guide: Capacity, Materials, and How to Choose the Right Adult Urn

Choosing an urn can feel like an oddly technical task in the middle of something deeply human. You might be grieving, planning ahead, or helping a parent or spouse make...

What Size Urn Do You Need? Capacity Guide for Adults, Children, Pets & Keepsakes - Funeral.com, Inc.

What Size Urn Do You Need? Capacity Guide for Adults, Children, Pets & Keepsakes

When you’re grieving, it can feel jarring to be asked a question that sounds like math: what size urn do I need? But urn sizing is usually less complicated than...

What to Bring to a Funeral: A Simple Checklist (Cards, Flowers, Donations & Helpful Gestures) - Funeral.com, Inc.

What to Bring to a Funeral: A Simple Checklist (Cards, Flowers, Donations & Helpful Gestures)

If you are reading this because you have a funeral, wake, or visitation on your calendar, you are not alone in the question that follows: what to bring to a...

Cremation Jewelry Guide: Necklace, Ring & Bracelet Options, Materials, and Care - Funeral.com, Inc.

Cremation Jewelry Guide: Necklace, Ring & Bracelet Options, Materials, and Care

When a family chooses cremation, the first questions tend to be practical: What happens next? When will we receive the ashes? Where will we keep them? But soon another kind...

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...

Tulip Facts and Care: How to Grow, Plant, and Enjoy Tulips Longer - Funeral.com, Inc.

Tulip Facts and Care: How to Grow, Plant, and Enjoy Tulips Longer

Tulips have a way of making spring feel official. The first time you see them standing up in the garden, it’s hard not to feel a small shift inside you:...

Buying a Columbarium Niche in Advance: Pros, Cons, Prices, and What to Ask - Funeral.com, Inc.

Buying a Columbarium Niche in Advance: Pros, Cons, Prices, and What to Ask

When you start thinking about a columbarium niche in advance, you’re usually not looking for something “morbid.” You’re looking for relief. Relief from future guesswork, from rushed decisions, from the...

How to Talk to Family About Funeral Wishes: A 5-Step Conversation Guide - Funeral.com, Inc.

How to Talk to Family About Funeral Wishes: A 5-Step Conversation Guide

Most people don’t avoid talking about funeral planning because they don’t care. They avoid it because it feels like bringing a storm cloud into an ordinary day. It can feel...