When Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler's friend passed away, he volunteered to make a memorial website. It proved difficult to find decent options to honor the dead.
"I wanted to allow people to share their digital memories"
"Mourning is a core human experience in dire need of some new digital ideas."
"I tried a dozen online memorial services and found most only frustrated me"
"None of the services could help me make a truly beautiful tribute"
"The sense of reverence many of the services built into their templates—clip art of doves or setting suns—didn't fit with my friend's raucous personality"
"Seeing decades-old photos and reading childhood stories about my friend for the first time, I gained a new appreciation of him"
Tributize has developed a global online platform for people to share tributes to their loved ones
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