During the pandemic, the rise of virtual meetings saw explosive growth as the de facto way for people to meet and socialize in all areas of life. The pandemic additionally brought with it the ...

Holding a funeral or memorial on a videoconferencing platform like Zoom offers several advantages: It’s easy for distant guests to attend, and you can record it. By Steven J. Birenbaum When my 80-year ...

Memorial Day has traditionally been a day filled with parades, flag ceremonies and other gatherings to honor veterans. As the coronavirus pandemic forces people to stay out of crowds, however, this ...

Immersive remembrance: Funeral services are adopting AR/VR for virtual memorials, cemetery tours, and interactive life-story experiences that complement traditional ceremonies. Tech-driven ...

Irish funeral directors and RTÉ have launched a virtual memorial wall so that friends and family can pay tribute to loved ones who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. RTÉ will also hold memorial ...

Gov. Phil Murphy’s statewide shutdown order during the coronavirus pandemic pretty much has lowered the flag on Memorial Day parades and commemorations throughout the state, so some communities are ...

They replace the March of the Living’s tradition of placing messages on plaques on the former concentration camp’s train tracks. (JTA) — Virtual memorial plaques were projected on to the “Arbeit Macht ...

A joint virtual memorial service will be held on Sept. 29 for two longtime members of New York City’s publishing scene, Lorna Koski and Kathleen Berger. Koski, a former WWD associate editor, died May ...

A virtual memorial for Maeve Kennedy McKean, who died along with her son Gideon in a canoe accident, was held Saturday with 3,000 people in e-attendance, including musical tributes from Melissa ...