Why a memorial should cost once, and what the price keeps

There is a quiet cruelty in subscription remembering. A yearly fee for a memorial page means that someone, someday, has to keep paying for grandmother, and when the card expires or the child who set it up passes in their turn, the page goes dark. The industry calls this churn. For a family it is a second loss, smaller than the first, and shameful in a way the first never was.

So the first decision we made was the payment: once. A plot in our estate costs $360, $720 or $1,440, by where it stands, and that is the last money we will ever ask of your family for it.

What the price actually keeps

We charge more than a memorial page. Your one payment keeps: the servers that render a living 3D world for every visitor your family ever sends; the storage that holds their photographs, letters and voice, and never empties; the address that never expires; the seasonal light, the weather, the lamp at dusk; and the yearly archive, one file with everything you keep, sent to your family every year, built to open on any device decades from now without any help from us.

Price it against the things families actually buy for permanence. A headstone runs $1,000 to $3,000 before the plot beneath it. Flowers for a single service can pass $500. Ours is the only one of these your whole family can visit from anywhere on earth, at any hour, forever.

The promises behind the word forever

A price is only as good as the promise behind it, so ours are written down. The Permanence Charter binds us: no advertising on a memory palace, ever. Everything you keep is yours to export, any time, no permission needed. If we ever had to close, your data goes out first, with real notice. And the yearly archive means your family holds everything at home regardless of what happens to us, to your accounts, or to the internet between us.

We also hold a plain refund policy: thirty days, full refund, no questions, and everything you uploaded stays yours.

Walk before you decide

The estate is free to walk, and the walk is the way to decide. Stand in the Vale at dusk, and you will know what the price is for.