When you lose a loved one, 1 of the most heart-wrenching things is the idea that you may forget about them or that the memory of them dying will overshadow the good times. However, there are many things you can do to keep their memory in your life from making a photo memory book, storing their ashes in a personalized urn to even keep celebrating their birthday each. We promise you’ll never forget about your loved one.
Store Their Ashes in a Personalised Urn
If your loved one opted to have their body cremated, then retaining their ashes is a way of ensuring that they can still be part of your life even after they’re gone. Urns for ashes are considered the traditional way of creating a memorial when there isn’t a grave to be visited. Plus, they can be moved around; for example, if you move to a new house.
Purchase a Memorial Bench
A really popular option to commemorate a loved one’s life is with a memorial bench. The bench could be placed in a location where the deceased loved or could simply stay in your garden, so you could sit down and reminisce about all of the good times you spent together. There are lots of companies that can put together a customized bench for you. But a cheaper option would be to buy a bench from a garden center and organize getting a plaque engraved yourself.
Make a Photo Memory Book
Why not gather as many photos that you can find and make a photo book of good memories? You could also ask friends and family to send you some copies of their favorite photos and include them too. To get really creative, you could also write a short caption or poem to include with each photo.
Organise a Firework Display
A firework display could be a great way of remembering your loved one’s life, especially if they were bubbly and full of personality. You could team up and invite friends and family around your house so you can enjoy the fireworks together and have a unique celebration of life. However, make sure you are all safe and enjoy the fireworks from a reasonable distance to avoid the risk of getting hurt.
Write a Heartfelt Letter
Writing can be very therapeutic, especially during an emotionally challenging time. So, writing a letter to your loved one can be a way of feeling connected to them even though they’ll never read it. You could bury them at your loved one’s graveside, let them go down a river, or place them in a fire.
Support a Charity or Cause
If your loved one was fond of a particular charity or made regular donations during their lifetime, then why not continue doing the same in their memory? You don’t have to set up a fundraiser or hold an event; you could simply set up a direct debit where you give some money to charity every month.
Keep Celebrating Their Birthday Each Year
It can be an emotionally challenging and difficult time when your loved one’s birthday comes around each year. After all, birthdays are supposed to be a celebration of life, so what can you do if they’re no longer with you? Still celebrate! You made memories with them and spent many years together, so that’s always worth celebrating. You could organise a family reunion rather than spend the day alone. It could be a nice way of having a get-together and talk about the memories you all have.
Organise a Sky Lantern Release
You could organise a sky lantern release and invite friends and family to take part. You could write your loved one’s name, birthday, and the date they died on each one too and then release them into the night sky. However, sky lanterns are not environmentally friendly and can pose serious threats to wildlife, so make sure you opt for a biodegradable option.