How to Write an Ebituary

Write your eBituary first using a word processer, such as Microsoft Word. Organize your photographs to go with your text. Write captions for your photographs.

Even a short eBituary should cover certain key events in a person's life: when and where they were born, when they married, and to whom, when and where they died, and their most important lifetime accomplishments. You might want to mention the family members whom a deceased person leaves behind. Feel free to go on and elaborate. Pay tribute to the decedent's character. Speak of their travels and their interests and their loves and losses. You are writing a record of a person's life, which, in just a few generations, may be the only record left which captures the individual's true character and accomplishments. Many books have been written about George Washington, for example. But imagine how much better we would understand him today if Martha had written an eBituary.

Proofread and edit your work very carefully. Perhaps you should show it to others. Just as with an old-media obituary, once you have submitted your eBituary for publication, you cannot modify it or take it back. We will add it to our permanent archive.

Once you are satisfied, copy and paste your eBituary into our form, add photographs and captions, review and submit for publication. Please be careful not to include any copyrighted materials. We would like to know that you own this material, and that you have the right to grant us permission to publish it.

Thank you.

The eBituaries Team