Remembering a Life: Ideas & Activities
The funeral is over, family and friends joined you graveside. Stories were told at their celebration of life, ashes buried or scattered and memories were shared. Now what?
We invite you to get creative and have some fun with how you remember your loved ones after their official ceremonies are over.
Choose one (or some) of the ideas below (or one of your own!) that cost little or nothing to do and commit to doing it in the next 30 days.
Let us know how it goes! If you’ve come up with one of your own, awesome! We’d love to hear about it and share it with our community.
Order coffee with their name / nickname.
You’ll hear it called out when your order is up!
Use their name in your next password update.
(You DO update your passwords right?)
Frame a quote they were renowned for.
Print their quote (giving them credit) pop into a picture frame and display it in a high traffic area in your home.
Make a memory jar.
Ask friends and family to send you a memory they cherish. Print them off and place them in the jar. Pick out one each month and share via email as you go.
Name a day after them.
Pick a day in their favorite season and name it in honor of them. On this day, every year, share one story about them with anyone you choose.
Cook their favorite meal, or the one they enjoyed making for family and friends.
Re-name the dish to include their name, snap a photo and share the recipe on social media with a bit of a story behind it.
Watch their favorite movie.
Grab some popcorn, invite others to join you in person or pick a date when you can all watch virtually together.
Go to an event or place they enjoyed going.
Make a date with yourself (or invite others), go to an art museum, the beach, ball game, hiking trail or favorite breakfast joint. Send a postcard to someone close to them and tell them about your “date”.
Designate a “hang-out” spot.
Find a spot outdoors and make that they place you go to connect and remember (even if they have a headstone!). It could be on your property, a public spot (you both loved people watching), a boulder in the woods or a ball field you frequented often.
Caption a photo and make into a greeting card.
Find an old photo. Photocopy it and make into a greeting card or piece of stationery. Write down a story the photo reminds you of and mail to five people of your choosing.
