But there’s another, slower loss that comes over time. Losing their memory as it slowly fades, replaced by more pressing concerns and new memories without them, is also a painful process. This process can leave you feeling like you’ve lost the person all over again once you’ve noticed it’s happened, and it can re-open a painful wound.
Thanks to technological advances it’s now possible to share and enjoy the memories of your lost loved one. This is done through a digital memorial page and with it you have a centralised location to visit your loved ones and their memories over and over. The importance of sharing memories with other people who loved the person you lost is priceless. With it you can share the experience and love and keep the memory alive for generations to come.
How To Always Remember Them
While families and loved ones might span counties, states, provinces, countries, and continents, the internet is a great connector that keeps us all in touch with each other. Having a digital memorial page where everyone can touch base to remember the person who has passed gives you the power of memory right at your fingertips.
Pictures, Videos, and Mementos
Seeing their smiling face always lifts your spirits, which can continue to go on long into the future as you keep their memory alive. Pictures, videos, and snapped photos of notes (like recipe cards, the post-its they left all over their house, or the birthday card they never forgot to send you) can transport you right back to the place you were in when they were first taken and received.
Pictures can be hard to share; who gets the scrapbook and when, and how do you effectively see them when it’s someone else’s turn to see the scrapbook? A central online location where everyone can share pictures of their loved one lets everyone access the same loving memories.
Everyone can see Grandma’s brownie recipe, the image of cousin Travis during his mohawk phase, and pictures of the letters Aunt Irene received during the war. You might get to see things you had never seen before, discover a whole new dimension to the loved one you’ve lost, and share those unique experiences with the loved ones still in your life.
Life Story
Who really knows everything about someone? Our loved ones are complex and fascinating people; that’s why we love them so much. But, after someone passes, we often learn more about them than we knew. An online life timeline, for instance, creates a place where people can post memories and information about their person’s life, creating a timeline of memories and realities that will make you smile and laugh to look at.
Sharing your memories with others might bring them a new level of understanding for the loved one they lost and help you appreciate them more than ever before. And you may learn a new thing or two.
Memories
There’s nothing like memories and stories to bring someone back into a room with you. The memories we have of people can take on a life of their own until you can feel their presence there as you laugh over the time they thought they were supposed to bake 12 dozen cookies for the church instead of just 12 or the time they taught you to drive and fell asleep in the passenger seat, or maybe even the time they taught you how to sneak out of the house without waking your parents.
Sharing these memories with others can bring back all the fun and happiness and help you mourn and move forward together.
Bring Their Memory with You Wherever You Go
Online memorials are a phenomenal way to keep the memory of your loved one alive, so they’re never far from you. The centralised location helps you and your other loved ones share memories, pictures, stories, and the life of the one you lost, no matter what time of day or where you are in the world. Keeping their memory alive and letting it live forever.
Article by Lorna Quigg, Memorisation
