Grief Support, Funeral Planning & Estate Planning Tools You Can Actually Use
Every resource in this vault is free. No email gates. No login. No hidden fees. Download what you need, print what helps, and share it with anyone who could use it.
Therapists, counselors, hospice workers, funeral directors, and attorneys are welcome to print these for clients or distribute at workshops. Just keep Memorial Merits branding intact.
The Memorial Merits Free Resources library is a no-gate collection of printable checklists, worksheets, reference guides, and AI-supported wellness tools for the people facing grief, funeral planning, estate administration, and end-of-life decisions. Every resource is free. No email, no login, no paywall.
What it covers: funeral planning and consumer rights under the FTC Funeral Rule, legacy and estate planning, grief support across human and pet loss, caregiver tools, professional reference materials for hospice and grief counselors, and Solace, our free AI grief companion available 24/7. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Free to print, share, and redistribute with attribution.
| Just Released The Funeral Planning Field GuideA 21-page reference covering federal consumer rights under the FTC Funeral Rule, the seven decisions families face after a loss, and verified resources for caskets, financing, and grief support. Licensed CC BY 4.0 for free redistribution. |
| Download the Field Guide View on Zenodo 21 pages | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356703 | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
Start With What You Need Right Now
Whether you’re settling an estate for the first time, planning a funeral under pressure, or looking for grief support tools that go beyond empty platitudes, each collection below was built for people navigating real situations in real time. Everything else will be here when you’re ready for it.
For Caregivers & Families
Supporting someone through grief, dying, or end-of-life decisions is its own kind of hard. These resources are for the people standing beside the person in crisis. Whether you’re caring for a terminally ill parent, helping a friend who just lost a spouse, or trying to hold your family together during estate settlement, these tools were built for you.
For Professionals
If you work with grieving individuals or families navigating end-of-life decisions, everything in this vault is yours to use with clients. Print grief affirmation sheets for your waiting room. Include executor checklists in estate planning packets. Hand funeral planning worksheets to families during arrangement meetings. Every resource carries an open distribution license. No permission forms. No licensing fees. No restrictions beyond keeping the attribution intact.
Free Memorial Merits Tools: Funeral, Estate, and Grief
Not every resource fits in a PDF. Solace is Memorial Merits’ free AI grief companion, available 24/7 on every page of this site. She was built for the moments when you need patient, compassionate guidance and it’s 2 AM and no one is awake. This section also includes free tools, calculators, apps and software for legacy & estate planning, funeral planning and grief support, along with audio wellness resources for the times when reading isn’t what you need.
Built by Someone Who Needed It First
Memorial Merits was created after its founder lost his father and nearly lost himself. Every resource on this site exists because grief shouldn’t have a paywall. If something here helped you, share it. That’s the only payment we’ll ever ask for.
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