If somebody has just died and you have been told to make one of these, this page explains what it actually is.
← eternallyloved.co.ukA memorial page is one web page about the person who has died, at its own address, which you send to everybody instead of telling them all separately.
It carries the practical things people need in the days before a funeral: where it is, when, how to get there, where to park, what to wear, whether to send flowers. And it carries the things that are not practical at all: photographs, what they were like, somewhere for people to say so.
Somebody dies and forty people need the same six facts. Ordinarily that is forty conversations, each one starting again from the beginning, most of them with somebody you love who is also upset. The details change twice. Half of them do not hear.
A page is the answer to that. You put it right once, you send one link, and when the time of the service moves you change it in one place and everybody has the new version. That is the whole of the practical case, and on the week it matters it is worth more than it sounds.
| This | Is |
|---|---|
| A funeral notice | A short announcement, usually in a newspaper or on a funeral director's site, saying who has died and when the funeral is. Days, not years. |
| An obituary | A written account of a life, published by a newspaper, usually for someone well known. Nobody replies to it. |
| A fundraising page | For collecting donations in someone's memory. It does the money and not the day. |
| A memorial page | All the details of the day, in one place, that people can reply to and add to, and that stays afterwards as somewhere to visit. |
Plenty of families end up with more than one of these, and that is normal. They do different jobs.
Whoever you give the address to. A memorial page is not a public listing, and ours are marked so that search engines do not list them: nobody finds one by searching a name, unless the family chooses to allow it, which is off unless they turn it on.
We also ask the AI companies' crawlers not to read them. That is a request rather than a lock, and the ones that respect such requests stay away.
It is not secret the way a password is secret. Anybody you send it to can pass it on, which at a funeral is usually the point.
No. Funerals happened without them for a very long time. It is worth having if people are scattered, if the details are not settled yet, if somebody cannot travel, or if you simply cannot face saying the same sentence forty times.
It is worth less if everybody who needs to know already knows, and lives nearby, and the arrangements are fixed.
If you would like to see one rather than read about it, there is a complete example at example-person.eternallyloved.co.uk, built for a family we invented for the purpose.
Ours takes a name and an email address to start, and you build it yourself by tapping the words on the page. How it works sets out the whole of it, step by step, and the prices are on one page with nothing hidden behind them.
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