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.

iCloud Inheritance and Apple Legacy Contact: How Access Works and What Families Need - Funeral.com, Inc.

iCloud Inheritance and Apple Legacy Contact: How Access Works and What Families Need

After someone dies, families are asked to carry grief and logistics at the same time. And in a life that runs on devices, one of the most emotional logistical questions...

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...

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...

International Travel With Ashes: Documents Families Are Commonly Asked For - Funeral.com, Inc.

International Travel With Ashes: Documents Families Are Commonly Asked For

There are some errands grief prepares you for, and some it doesn’t. International travel with ashes often lands in that second category: you’re trying to honor someone, follow through on...

Translating Documents for International Ash Transport: What Matters - Funeral.com, Inc.

Translating Documents for International Ash Transport: What Matters

When a family is preparing to bring cremated remains across a border, the emotional weight and the paperwork tend to collide at the worst possible moment. You are trying to...

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...