Video Remembrance Network™
The Video Remembrance
Network - Serving the Funeral Home
Industry
Often when a loved one passes, only a very small percentage of the people
who would like to come to the funeral, wake or visitation are able to make the
trip. In a world where families
and friends are increasingly separated by long distances, the costs, and
logistics, are often prohibitive.
The Video Remembrance Network (“VRN”)
enables them to communicate face-to-face with the bereaved family from the
convenience of a local funeral home, saving time and expense and avoiding the
difficulties of last minute travel.
VRN provides an easy and up to
date method for notifying friends and relatives of the death and funeral
arrangements. It allows for
distant relatives to send a Video Remembrance, or schedule a convenient Video
Condolence Visit. VRN allows us a
modern way to offer our comfort and condolences, and achieve closure, in a way
that has never been available before.
How It Works:
The bereaved family (or alternatively the Host funeral
director) will record a video mail that can be sent to any email address,
anywhere in the world, to notify distant friends and family of the passing and
funeral arrangements. This video mail can then be forwarded to others who
might want to know (a tremendous improvement over and addition to the
old-fashioned “phone trees” of the past). Accompanying the video
notification will be details of dates, days, times and locations of the
events, as well as a link to locations and contact information of nearby VRN
equipped facilities where they can book their Video Condolence Visit and/or
record a Video Remembrance that can be sent to the family.
Each participating facility will
be outfitted with state of the art video communications equipment
incorporating our proprietary technology. When a funeral is commissioned, the
Host director will reserve a few hours of video time on VRN’s proprietary
web scheduler for the bereaved family to be available for distant family
and friends to make live Video Condolence Visits. These live conferences take
place between the Host facility and a participating facility nearby the
distant persons. Conducted over plasma screens in a dignified and comforting
setting, people will be able to connect intimately, face-to-face, despite the
distance between them.
A Video Remembrance can be more than a simple expression of
sympathy. In a five-minute video, we can also create a short testament, share
a personal story, a humorous event, etc.
Even visitors who have been able to attend the funeral proceedings in
person may be encouraged to add to this video legacy while at the Host
facility. The locally and remotely generated Video Remembrances will later be
copied onto CD or Videotape for the family to keep, and viewed as part of one
of the funerary events.
Roll your mouse over a number below to view
the steps in the
VRN process.
