How Living Years Works
Individuals or organisations have the ability to quickly and easily set up a beautiful web Lifebook for a loved one (initially on a trial basis for 14 days absolutely free of charge), then invite visitors to view and interact with it.
After this trial period, an annual subscription will be required. Payments may be made by any number of people, allowing the cost to be shared between family and friends.
The beautiful and highly interactive website that is created for your loved one can then remain online as long as you like.
At Living Years, our guiding principles are to:
- Be easy to use for non-technical users;
- Be respectful to the family and friends of the deceased; and
- Facilitate communication between our users.
Some of the many engaging features of the website include:
- FREE, quick and easy to set up a Lifebook It takes takes 2 minutes to create a basic obituary or funeral notice that is free for 14 day trial period.
- Easy, flexible and affordable online payments to keep the Lifebook online Living Years allows an unlimited number of partial payments from friends and families with discounts available. Lifebooks are FREE to families of deceased children less than 18 years of age.
- Main photograph of the deceased You may specify any photograph as a portrait of your loved one, which appears prominently on the main Lifebook page.
- Selection between many beautifully-formatted themes Our themes cover a wide range of religions, sports and hobbies of relevance to your loved one.
- Choose to have Lifebook designated as private or public We understand that you may not wish your Lifebook visible to the world, and provide privacy controls for your Lifebook.
- Moderate all content added by any user to your Lifebook See important notes about user-generated content.
- Obituary for the deceased Maintain a permanent, online obituary for your departed loved one.
- Guestbook Each Lifebook has its own guestbook, which may be added to as often as needed by friends or family.
- Audio eulogy Upload an audio file from your computer as a eulogy accessible from your Lifebook.
- Automatic reminders Reminders of important events and dates are automatically emailed to family and friends.
- Photograph and video galleries Each Lifebook may contain any number of galleries, to which many photographs and videos may be added, and to which family and friends may add comments.
- Life timeline A timeline revealing the many details of the life of the deceased is created from the dates and details added to your Lifebook.
- Search for relevant services, products and charities Search from an extensive list using the search bar at the top of every page.
- Nominate charities for online donations You may nominate a preferred charity to receive donations in lieu of flowers or in memory of your loved one.
- Businesses Gain opportunities for driving traffic to your website and enhancing functionality.
- Charities Gain online donations and opportunities for cause-related marketing programs.
- Accommodation for pre-planning and palliative care Lifebooks can be created for those who are alive and want to actively take part in how their Lifebook will look and what content and images are provided. This may be the case for individuals who have pre-planned their arrangements or are in palliative care. In these situations, you have the option of designating that the website will not be online until specified.
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