Why families choose one
A photograph is how they looked. A video is how they were.
The thing people miss first is not a face. It is a voice, a laugh, the
particular way somebody said your name. Those live in videos nobody
watches, buried in a phone, and after a while people stop going looking
for them because looking hurts and finding takes too long.
A card puts it one tap away instead. At the service it gives people
something to do with their hands and something true to take home. Years
later it is still in a drawer, and on the day somebody wants to hear
that voice they do not have to go hunting for it.
Most families choose Bamboo. It is engraved rather than printed —
their name and the years cut into the wood itself, with no ink
sitting on top of them to fade or peel. It holds type only, not a
photograph; a family who wants their face on the front chooses
White instead, at the same price.
Every finish, side by side.
It can be completely private. Password the page and the card shows
nothing to anyone without it — not the name, not the
photograph, nothing at all. Grief is not content, and none of
this is public unless you decide it is.