Neighbours, old friends and the cousins abroad each leave a memory of them. The family gets a printed book of them to keep.
Gathering is free. You won't need a card.
Put in their name, and share the link with the family.
Friends and family can capture a memory by voice, video, writing or photos, wherever they are in the world. It's easy on any phone and nobody needs an account!
We write out every voice note and gather it all into a podcast you can play and a beautiful book you can hold.
At the house and the funeral home there's only time for a handshake and sorry for your trouble. People record their story that evening or the week after, when they've time to tell it.
Read the link out to anyone who rings the house, or text it to them.
Pick two or three for the priest or a grandchild to read on the day.
Add the voice notes, WhatsApp audio, videos and photos you have of them. They go in the book beside everything people recorded.
Say your name and how you knew them, then tell the family one thing they might not know.
"My name is Sadie, I looked after Peggy at the day centre on Tuesdays. She asked about my wedding plans every week and she remembered the colour of the napkins."
"Peggy and I did the flowers in St Brigid's. She grew the sweet pea for the May altar herself and brought it in wrapped in the Connacht Tribune."
"I'm Finbarr, I was in school with Liam. Mrs Fahy drove us to the county final in Tuam in her Fiesta, with the racing on the radio the whole way."
"It's Ellie. Auntie Peggy taught me to knit the summer I broke my leg, and I wore the scarf we made all through secondary school."
Share it the day the death notice goes up, and keep the book open for as long as you need. The podcast link and the book online are ready the day you order, and the printed book takes about three weeks to reach you.
It was really easy to collect the stories of Mum, and it's now a book I can give all my children that really brings her to life. Pardon the pun and dark humour!!
I love Chorus! Thank you so much for giving us a chance for so many laughs remembering Tom. The family chat was taken over talking about him again with all we had uncovered. It was beautiful.
Want to write your own questions? Start a blank book
Keep the signing book at the door and put a card with the link beside it. People who sign can add a story later from their phone.
Your name and a few words of sympathy is the custom. If you have a story about them, add it, and the family can come back to it after the funeral.
They open the link and record, write or add a photo. They can each record a message on their own phone, and it doesn't cost anything to collect them.
Yes. They can record from anywhere in the world with the link. We post the printed book to Ireland, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, every EU country, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland.
They can come back to the link any time, or write their memory instead.
Start the book now and invite people whenever you're ready.
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