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.

Holiday Meals After a Loss: Gentle Christmas Dinner Ideas for Grieving Families - Funeral.com, Inc.

Holiday Meals After a Loss: Gentle Christmas Dinner Ideas for Grieving Families

Holiday meals after loss can feel like walking into a room that used to be warm and familiar, only to realize the air is different now. The calendar says “Christmas,”...

What to Cook for a Grieving Family: Comforting Dinners, Meal Train Ideas & What to Avoid - Funeral.com, Inc.

What to Cook for a Grieving Family: Comforting Dinners, Meal Train Ideas & What to Avoid

If you’re searching what to cook for a grieving family, you’re probably trying to do something quietly important: remove one decision from a household that has too many decisions all...

Bereavement Gift Ideas That Actually Help: What to Send, Do, and Avoid - Funeral.com, Inc.

Bereavement Gift Ideas That Actually Help: What to Send, Do, and Avoid

In the first hours after someone dies, we reach for something—anything—that feels like it could soften the reality. A bouquet. A candle. A card you rewrite three times because the...

Grieving a Cat: How to Cope, Support a Friend, and Help a Surviving Cat - Funeral.com, Inc.

Grieving a Cat: How to Cope, Support a Friend, and Help a Surviving Cat

Grieving a cat can feel strangely private. There is no empty leash by the door, no obvious daily walk to explain the ache. Instead, the loss shows up in small,...