Death-Centered Startups on the Up and Up

Websites aimed at helping people deal with death are on therise.  These death-centered companies aremostly seen as a positive step in helping people confront death. 

Some sites like New York-based Everplans are free and functionas a “step-by-step guide for everything from financial and medical planning tospiritual and grief counseling.”  Othersites like eFuneral, ShivaConnect.com, and FuneralOne help funeral homes shifttheir business to the Web.  Sites likeDallas-based MyDirectives allow users to create digital advance directiveswhile sites like the Sympathy Project sell custom-made cards to send to thosewho are grieving.

See Jaweed Kaleem, End of Life Tech Companies Grow with Changesin Death Traditions, Huffington Post, June 13, 2013.