Five of the Best Resources to Keep the Memories Alive
Isn’t research wonderful. I’m guessing it is how you reached this blog, and now we get to share our findings with you. Preserving a loved one’s memory has taken a huge sideways step from the colossal tombstones of the past, we now look at documenting special moments in a variety of ways. Whatever the stage, there are resources out there that not only assure and help your family at a time of need, but there are also particularly individualistic and heart-warming ideas to celebrate our loved ones.
Interested yet? Let’s get into it shall we!
Peace of Mind
First off the rank is Peace of Mind, a downloadable PDF template that you complete for you or your family to access if there ever was a personal emergency or disaster. Packed full of essential information, Peace of Mind is a systematic way of ensuring all your information is in one place (this is what drew us to it, we love a system!). The perfect `in case of emergency plan’ that you can save and access anywhere. Begone the little red notebook full of passwords, IRD numbers, partially completed investment information, and indecipherable insurance details.
In My Own Words
`Tell your story, in your own words’. If this doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, I am not sure what will. This beautiful idea hands the microphone to your loved ones (or yourself) and enables them to tell their history, their best jokes, the incriminating stories, the happy ones and the sad, all in their own tone and voice. What a remarkable treasure to hold onto.
To hear their voice, to keep their history alive and a keepsake forever.
IRemember
Everyone has a legacy, and IRemember was created to share those legacies of the people we love.
The thoughtfully curated subscription-based idea allows the user to create a memorial page, uploading images, videos and audio files of your loved one. It is then attached to a memorial marker, a QR code
that you can place at a memorial site or add to a headstone.
Share, view, remember.
Transition Navigators
Transition Navigators is a caring service established by Robyn Johnston, who is completing her PhD on the wellbeing of older people. She is also a counsellor and a trained teacher. The team are ‘advanced lifestyle planners’ who create individual plans to help older people find accommodation that best fits their needs. They provide support for the individual and the family at the right time and with the right plan, all the while maintaining their client’s independence and dignity. We love the idea, keeping our loved ones in control of their life with their family as loving and encouraging by-standing supporters.
Resilient Grieving by Dr Lucy Hone
If ever there was a book to give to a friend or relative who was grieving, then this would be our top pick. A practical, researched based guide to finding your own path to recovery following devastating loss. Dr Lucy Hone works in the field of resilience psychology, helping ordinary people exposed to real-life traumatic situations. Following the tragic death of her own daughter, she used her practise to develop ways to support her family and to find a new way of living without Abi. Dr Hone shares her research so that others can work to regain some sense of control and take action in the face of helpless situations.