Posting an obituary online doesn't have to cost anything or take longer than a few minutes, but it's worth doing it somewhere built to last rather than the first free option that comes up in a search.
Start with the obituary itself. It should include the full name and age, date and place of birth and death, a short summary of their life, who they're survived by and who predeceased them, service details, and where to send flowers or donations. If writing it from scratch feels overwhelming, a tool built for this specific task, rather than a general writing app, can turn a few basic details into a first draft to edit from.
Once the obituary is written, creating a free memorial page takes just a few minutes. Memorygram's pages require no account or credit card, and go live instantly once created. From there, you can add photos, background music, and video alongside the obituary, and invite other family members to contribute their own memories, so the page reflects more than one person's perspective.
The result is a page with a link that never expires, meaning the obituary stays reachable years down the line rather than disappearing behind a paywall or getting buried on a funeral home's site. It's a meaningful difference from posting an obituary once and having it quietly vanish: a memorial page is meant to be visited again, added to, and shared, long after the week it was first published.