bereavement

The Digital Estate Emergency Kit aims to provide a simple process and template for gathering your digital life in one place, allowing your trustees access to systems and services in the event the inevitable occurs.

Open-source, source-backed workflow data, schemas, and validation for bereavement administration across Europe.

This project results from a partnership between the Universities of Bradford and Wolverhampton and Child Bereavement UK. Funded by AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), it aimed to co-produce resources with young people – for young people – to prompt conversations about death, dying and bereavement.

Turns a household's data spreadsheet + a trigger date into a dated crisis plan: checklist + calendar. Local, private, durable.

Niek Schoorl - In Memoriam

AD Assistant: free, open-source estate administration and inheritance tax tool for executors (England and Wales). Informs and drafts; a person approves; nothing is filed automatically.

A free, MIT-licensed Claude specialist for bereaved US families using an online funeral service. Returns TODAY / THIS WEEK / MONTH 1 / DON'T-DO-YET triage.

Everything your executor will need, in one encrypted file. No credentials stored, no service dependency: age encryption + 2-of-3 Shamir shares, recoverable forever with two standard open-source tools.

Amparo — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Amparo is a Brazilian fintech that supports bereaved families in the days after a funeral. Its Central de Cadastros uses automated document reading and data extraction to register a family once and share that data across partner systems, while a WhatsApp assistant

Empathy — independent third-party profile of a public API surface, by API Evangelist. Empathy is a support platform that helps organizations guide people through loss, leave, and legacy moments, combining AI with human care to serve individuals navigating grief, estate planning, and major life transitions.