A life remembered, forever present
A lasting place for everything that made someone who they were — their story, their music, their service, and the memories only your family can tell.
Two ways a memorial begins
Both end in the same place: a page your family holds and adds to over the years.
Through a funeral home
Your funeral director builds the memorial during arrangements — the biography, the photographs, the service details — and hands it to your family to carry on.
On your own
If no funeral home was involved, or the funeral was a long time ago, you can make one yourself. We ask for a few details and a link to a published obituary, and a person reads every memorial before it goes live.
What a memorial holds
The whole of a life
Biography, hometown, the work they did and the faith they kept. The songs that meant something, with the reason each one did. Military or volunteer service, recorded with the detail it deserves. The recipe everybody still asks for.
What the family keeps to itself
Stories, photographs, video and recordings can be marked family-only. Those are shown to signed-in family members and to nobody else — not sent to anonymous visitors, and stored so they cannot be fetched by a public link.
How people find their way back
Every memorial has an ID you can type at etherstone.net. Most also have a solid engraved steel marker at the resting place carrying that ID, and a QR code where one is fitted.
The same memorial, two views
What a visitor sees
The life, the service details, the guestbook, and every photograph the family chose to share. Anyone with the ID can open it, with no account and no sign-in.
What the family sees
All of that, and the parts kept back — a gathering that was family only, a chapter they did not want on a public page, the recordings meant for each other.
A visitor is not told that anything is missing, and that is deliberate. Marking something private should not announce that it exists.
A real memorial page with real settings. No sign-in required.
For families
The stories that would otherwise be lost
An obituary is a few hundred words. A life is not. Etherstone keeps the rest — the recipe in her handwriting, the songs he played on a Sunday, the voice on an old recording, the memories your relatives add in their own words.
Some of it belongs to everyone who visits. Some of it belongs only to your family. You decide which is which, section by section.
- Memories from relatives, with your approval before they appear
- Family-only photos, video, and recordings kept from anonymous visitors
- Recipes, music, family tree, and military honors
- A complete archive you can download and keep — works offline, forever
Memorial plans
One payment, kept permanently — no subscriptions and no renewals. Pricing is being finalised with our funeral home partners.
Standard
Everything needed to remember one person well — their story, their photographs, and a place people can find them.
Pricing announced soon
- Full memorial — life story, obituary, service & military honors, family tree, recipes, music, memories
- Up to 200 photos with captions and family-only controls
- Video — about 30 minutes of everyday phone video (about 7 minutes at 4K), with a featured primary
- 3 audio recordings including "Hear their voice"
- Private family view with per-section visibility
- Up to 10 family accounts with roles
- Up to 30 songs
- Contributor memories with approval
- Condolence guestbook for visitors
- Annual remembrance emails
- Complete archive download (ZIP) — yours forever, works offline
- QR steel marker compatible
- Name a legacy contact — free on every plan
- Permanent hosting, no renewals, ever
Available through participating funeral homes.
Premium
Most completeFor a family who wants to keep gathering — voices, video, the things people write, and a printed book at the end of it.
Pricing announced soon
Everything in Standard, plus:
- Up to 1,000 photos
- Video — about 7 hours of everyday phone video (about 1.5 hours at 4K)
- Unlimited audio — the Voice Library
- Unlimited family accounts
- Up to 200 songs
- Service recording
- Donations-in-memory link
- Memorial Book (print-ready PDF)
- Guided biography builder
- Custom web address
- Time Capsule messages, released on future dates
- One Companion (pet) memorial
Available through participating funeral homes.
Heritage
For the ancestors — keep their place in the family story.
Pricing announced soon
- Life story, life details & military honors
- Written family lore & memories
- Full family tree & connections, with an Etherstone code
- Up to 30 photographs
- Public or family-only visibility
- Complete archive download · QR marker · permanent hosting
Built for remembrance, not recent loss — no service details, video, audio, or annual reminders.
For a relative who died twenty or more years ago.
You can move a memorial from Standard to Premium at any time — nothing already added is lost.