When someone you love dies, the obituary is often the hardest thing on the list. You have hours, not days. You are exhausted. You want it to sound like the person you knew, not a template. That is what this service is for.
ObituaryCraft is an AI-assisted obituary writing service. You talk to a gentle AI guide, share what you remember, and walk away with a personalized draft you can edit, format, and download.
About ten minutes · no account required to start
About 10 minutes
Most families finish in one sitting.
$0 to read the draft
Pay only when you decide it's right.
Private by default
Your stories never train our models.
Trusted by 2,000+ families
This is an AI-assisted writing service, not a human writer hired by the hour. You will not be assigned a freelance writer who calls you for a one-hour interview and emails a draft three days later. Instead, you have a conversation with an AI guide, in your own time, and the AI builds the obituary from what you say. You can stop and start, change your mind, regenerate, or rewrite anything. You stay in control.
Compared to a traditional obituary writing service, this one is cheaper, faster, and more private. Compared to writing it yourself with a blank document, it removes the question of where to start and what to include. The AI knows the structure of a good obituary and asks the right questions so you do not have to.
Professional human obituary writers exist and do good work. They are also expensive, slow during the hours families actually need them, and require you to share intimate stories with a stranger. Here is how the two approaches compare.
Hiring a human writer
$200 to $500 for a professional writer, plus rush fees if you need it the same day.
ObituaryCraft (AI)
Free to start. $49.99/year Premium unlocks the full obituary, AI editor, eulogy, and downloads. Cancel anytime.
Hiring a human writer
Typically 24 to 72 hours, often longer during evenings and weekends when most families need it.
ObituaryCraft (AI)
About 10 minutes for the conversation, seconds to generate the draft. Available any hour.
Hiring a human writer
You share the most intimate stories of your loved one with a stranger.
ObituaryCraft (AI)
You share with an AI in a private session. We do not train models on your text and never sell your data.
Hiring a human writer
Back-and-forth revisions over email. Each round adds days.
ObituaryCraft (AI)
Edit any line, regenerate the whole obituary, or rewrite a single paragraph instantly.
Hiring a human writer
Depends on the writer and how well they pull stories from you in one phone call.
ObituaryCraft (AI)
Trained on thousands of well-written obituaries and guided by a tone-specific persona that avoids cliche.
$0
$49.99/year
$59.99/year
Everything in Premium plus an online memorial website with a photo gallery, guestbook for condolences, and a shareable link.
See the full pricing breakdown and refund policy.
These are real obituaries the AI has produced for different relationships. Each came from a guided conversation about a specific person, with the family's own stories at the center.
A warm, traditional obituary built from a daughter's memories of her mother's career and family life.
Read sampleA grounded, slightly humorous obituary that captures a father's personality without slipping into cliche.
Read sampleSamples for every relationship, tone, and length.
Read sampleA guided conversation, one question at a time. Name, dates, family, work, personality, and the small stories that make a person specific.
The AI produces a complete obituary in seconds. The first half is free to read, so you can judge the writing before you pay.
Premium unlocks the full text and lets you rewrite any paragraph, change the tone, shorten, lengthen, or regenerate the whole draft.
Download in PDF, Word, plain text, or HTML. Plain text and HTML are formatted for newspaper and funeral home submission.
For a longer walkthrough, see how ObituaryCraft works.
Try the writing service. The conversation is free. The preview is free. You only pay when you want the full obituary.
A newspaper deadline tomorrow morning. A funeral the day after next. ObituaryCraft is available at any hour and finishes in minutes.
The most common case. The AI knows how to ask the right questions about a parent's life, family, and personality without you needing to start from a blank page.
Use the AI as a starting point with the family in the room. Edit alongside them. Hand them downloads in the formats your local papers accept.
When a parent is in hospice or you want to draft an obituary in advance, the AI helps you capture the stories now, while they can still be told.
No. ObituaryCraft is an AI-assisted writing service. The AI guides you through a conversation and writes the draft from your answers. You stay in control of every edit. This is why it costs $49.99/year instead of $300 a writer and why you can use it at 2 AM the night before a funeral.
A general chatbot will write a generic obituary if you paste a list of facts at it. ObituaryCraft is purpose-built: a structured conversation that pulls the right details, a tone-specific writing persona that avoids cliche, AI-editor controls, format-ready downloads, eulogy generation, and a memorial website option. You also do not have to know what to ask -- the conversation handles that.
Yes. The writing avoids the patterns that make AI text feel synthetic -- no em dashes, no hollow platitudes, no overwrought intensifiers. The tone is warm and dignified. Read the sample obituaries on our examples page and judge for yourself.
Yes. The plain text and HTML downloads are formatted for newspaper and online publication submission. Most major newspapers accept plain text by email. Our guide on newspaper obituary submission walks through the specifics for major US papers.
The AI writes from the answers you give it. It will not invent dates, names, or relationships. If something reads wrong, edit it directly or use the AI editor to fix it. Always proofread before submitting to a newspaper or printing for a service.
Yes. Many families pre-write obituaries when a loved one is in hospice, or write a legacy obituary for an elderly relative. The Service is for real people only. We do not allow obituaries written to harm, defame, or deceive.
A step-by-step guide if you would rather write it yourself.
Read moreThe information every obituary needs and what to leave out.
Read moreFree templates organized by relationship and format.
Read moreSample obituaries the AI has written for different relationships.
Read moreHow to submit an obituary to major US newspapers.
Read moreThe difference between the two and when you need each.
Read moreStart the conversation. Share what you remember. Walk away with a draft you can edit, format, and download. Free to try, no account required to start.