The Nation’s Premier Memorialization
Website and App

Summary:

Spring began with a memorialization app called MemoryBox, designed to provide monetizable insights into key life-stage events, as well as access to consumers when they’re most likely to spend the very most. Research has shown that consumers spend more during certain life-stage events than at any other time in their lives — from graduation and first home, to retirement and death. MemoryBox has been clinically proven to be beneficial in grief recovery.

MemoryBox lets consumers create Memories, curated collections of media elements, pictures and text comments and — coming soon — video and audio files. The application has been used by a variety of industries for a host of different applications:

• fundraising organizations (e.g. Aids Walk);
• protest movements (e.g. Women’s March);
• entertainment venues to promote concerts;
• sports teams to capture matches;
• event (wedding) planners and photographers to record special events;
• and funeral homes to memorialize lost loved ones and to document life celebration events.

While Cremstar addresses the needs of consumers while they’re planning ahead (pre-plan), when their loved one is imminent (pre-need), or when they’ve just passed away (at-need), MemoryBox lets us target these same individuals with a host of aftercare products and services, from real estate and travel to financial services.

Problem:

Every two minutes, we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s. We currently manage that pictogut individually, using a variety of social media apps and photo & video archiving systems. But when we remember lost loved ones, it is rarely alone. Our views of them are formed by many memories of multiple people, often looking at the same events and remembering them altogether differently. In death, we are rarely the dream of a solitary mind. We are made up of the memories of all who remember us, and the digital manifestation of those memories, captured in photographs and videos and audio and text. Until now, there was no destination online that helped consumers collectively memorialize lost loved ones.

Solution:

If you want to simply capture and archive your own photographs, most current social apps and media archiving systems like Apple iCloud, Google Photo, Flickr, Facebook and Instagram do an adequate job. But they don’t leverage the wisdom of family and friends, their creativity, and their media assets to help you create, shape and share your memories together. MemoryBox does.

“You are what you choose to remember.”

MemoryBox lets you, your family and friends post photos and other media of your lost loved one — simply, from any device, and from anywhere in the world. Plus, it serves as a place you can return to, again and again. With MemoryBox, your lost loved one is never farther away than your smartphone.

Each time customers leverage our Cremstar online direct cremation solution, the system automatically creates a complimentary online memorial — a “People” Memory — of their departed loved one at MemoryBox.com. In addition, Cremstar customers can create an “Event Memory” of a Life Celebration Event, like a dinner or memorial service, and email guests the link so they can join too. All the photos taken during the event by the members are automatically saved back to the Event Memory, even if guests aren’t actively using the app.

And for those who would like to arrange a Virtual Life Celebration Event, especially in these pandemic times, we’ve pioneered MemoryBox in the Metaverse, an online location to memorialize lost loved ones and host Virtual Life Celebration Events in real-time, with live eulogies, and guests from anywhere in the world.

MemoryBox delivers real clinical benefits.

According to Dr. Clay Routledge, MemoryBox has been clinically proven to be beneficial in grief recovery. Dr. Routledge is a world-renowned expert in the psychology of memory, nostalgia, and death, the author of 85 scientific papers and the recent book Nostalgia—A Psychological Resource, as well as a popular blogger for Psychology Today.

“Nostalgia acts as a psychological resource that helps people cope with life’s stressors and uncertainties, resulting in increased positive mood, self-esteem, feelings of belongingness, and perceptions of meaning in life. If you’re a family member or friend of someone who’s dying, or of someone who has recently passed, MemoryBox can help you cope with your loss more effectively, delivering real clinical benefits.”