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.

Miscarriage Grief for Fathers and Partners: How to Support, How to Mourn, and What to Say - Funeral.com, Inc.

Miscarriage Grief for Fathers and Partners: How to Support, How to Mourn, and What to Say

Miscarriage can rearrange your life in an instant. One moment you are imagining a future that felt increasingly real—appointments, names, dates on a calendar, a shift in identity that happens...

Neonatal Hospice in the NICU: Comfort Care and Meaningful Memory-Making - Funeral.com, Inc.

Neonatal Hospice in the NICU: Comfort Care and Meaningful Memory-Making

Sometimes, the most loving parenting looks nothing like what you imagined during pregnancy. It looks like learning a new language of medicine in a quiet hospital room. It looks like...

Choosing a Cremation Urn for a Child or Infant: Sizes, Materials & Keepsake Options - Funeral.com, Inc.

Choosing a Cremation Urn for a Child or Infant: Sizes, Materials & Keepsake Options

Choosing a child cremation urn or an infant urn for ashes is one of those decisions that can feel unfairly practical at the very moment life feels the least practical....

Caskets for Babies and Children: Sizing, Design, and Sensitive Planning Tips - Funeral.com, Inc.

Caskets for Babies and Children: Sizing, Design, and Sensitive Planning Tips

There are losses that don’t fit into ordinary language. When a baby or child dies, parents and caregivers often describe feeling as if time has split in two: the emotional...

Infant & Child Cremation Urns: Sizing, Styles, and Compassionate Buying Tips - Funeral.com, Inc.

Infant & Child Cremation Urns: Sizing, Styles, and Compassionate Buying Tips

There are losses that rearrange time. When a baby or child dies, many families describe the days afterward as both painfully slow and impossibly fast—appointments, forms, phone calls, decisions you...

Pregnancy After Loss: Navigating Hope, Anxiety, and Grief When You’re Expecting Again - Funeral.com, Inc.

Pregnancy After Loss: Navigating Hope, Anxiety, and Grief When You’re Expecting Again

When you become pregnant after a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss, you may find yourself living in two emotional time zones at once. One part of you is quietly hopeful,...

Memorials for Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death: Gentle Ideas for Honoring Very Short Lives - Funeral.com, Inc.

Memorials for Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death: Gentle Ideas for Honoring Very Short Lives

Some losses arrive with a public script. Other losses happen quietly—sometimes before anyone else knew you were pregnant, sometimes after you had already made space in your mind and home...