Funeral Services
Losing a close relative or friend is emotional and stressful. If you’re pre-planning, arranging a funeral, or looking for grief support, it can help to have a clear set of options to review for funeral services. You can also explore more guidance at QuickFuneral.com.
Below you’ll find curated online resources for funeral planning, memorials, obituaries, and related guidance—so you can move forward with less uncertainty.
Where to start
- Plan and decide: Explore funeral planning guidance, options, and checklists.
- Create or share a memorial: Review memorial website and obituary formats that help families share information.
- Get support: Look for grief resources and help finding additional funeral-related services.
- Handle digital concerns: If you want to address what happens to online assets, review digital legacy tools and guidance.
Online funeral services resources for planning, memorials, and obituaries
Each site below is included for the type of help described in its listing. Open the ones that match what you need today—planning, memorial websites, obituaries, or digital legacy support.
Funeral planning and general guidance
- National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA): https://nfda.org/planning-a-funeral.html — Funeral planning, grief resources, and help in finding a funeral home.
- The Co-operative Funeral Care: https://co-operative.coop/funeralcare/funeral-plans — Customized plans for cremations and burials, arrangements, and memorials.
- Funeral Planning: https://funeralplan.com — Funeral planning and grief support information.
- Funeralwise: https://funeralwise.com — Funeral planning, costs, etiquette and customs, and other basics.
- Funeral Perfect: https://funeralperfect.com — Suggestions on what to discuss with family and the funeral director.
- The Funeral Site: https://thefuneralsite.com — Helps plan funerals and memorials, find a funeral home near you, and discover services.
Obituaries and memorial websites
- My Wonderful Life: https://mywonderfullife.com — Make funeral plans, write an obituary, and prepare a list for vital documents (and more).
- Respectance: https://respectance.com — Online tribute and memorial website.
- Tribute Direct: https://tributedirect.com — End-of-life products and services including planning and memorial items.
- Forever Remembered: https://forever-remembered.com — Online obituary service where you create your own obituary (and share it via your own site).
- Memorial Farewells: https://memorialfarewells.com — Memorial website for obituaries, eulogies, arrangements, and a guest book.
- My Condolence: https://my-condolence.com — Personalized memorial web pages for a loved one.
- Acorn Obituaries: https://acorn-obituaries.com — Online memorials and obituaries.
- American Memorials: https://americanmemorials.com — Database of obituaries and memorials.
- Eternal Star: https://eternalstar.net — Permanent hosting of family photographs, histories, memorials, and documents.
- Forever Network: https://forevernetwork.com — Affiliate funeral homes, obituaries, and biographical memorials.
- Gates of Remembrance: https://gatesofrememberance.com — Online remembrance memorial to celebrate a life.
- Legacy: https://legacy.com — Pay tribute and connect with people for comfort and inspiration.
- Online Funeral: https://online-funeral.com — Solutions for funeral homes and families, including setting up a family website and watching live funeral services.
Digital legacy and planning beyond the immediate arrangements
- Obit: https://obit-mag.com/meet-obit — Funeral planner and features related to handling a successor’s access for a Facebook account.
- The Digital Beyond: https://thedigitalbeyond.com — Guidance if you’re worried about what happens to your digital assets.
Memorial products and environment-focused options
- Eternal Image: https://eternalimage.net — High-quality memorial products.
- Eternal Reefs: https://eternalreefs.com — Environmental living legacies for families that choose cremation.
- Memorial Ecosystems: https://memorialecosystems.com — Conservation burials.
Industry updates
- The Family Plot Blog: https://thefamilyplot.wordpress.com — Information about what’s new in the funeral industry.
Questions people often have
If you’re unsure where to begin, these common questions can help you narrow your next step.
Can I use online resources for both pre-planning and arranging a funeral?
Yes. The resources listed include options for pre-planning and arranging a funeral, plus guidance for related decisions.
What kinds of information can memorial websites and obituaries include?
Some memorial sites support creating and sharing obituaries, tributes, eulogies, arrangements, and guest-book messages. Others focus on storing histories and documents.
Are there resources focused on grief support and practical guidance?
Yes. Several listings mention grief resources and funeral planning help, including guidance on what to discuss with family and a funeral director.
I’m concerned about digital assets—where should I look?
Look for listings explicitly focused on digital legacy, such as sites described as addressing what happens to digital assets and related online accounts.
Do some resources also include environment-focused memorial options?
Yes. A few listings describe memorial or burial options with environmental or conservation-focused themes.
How do I choose which site is right for my needs?
Start by matching your goal: planning guidance, obituary/memorial sharing, grief support, digital legacy, or memorial product options. Then open 1–2 sites to compare what they offer.