Styx has a strategic relationship with MemoryBox, the nation’s premier memorialization website and app. The Styx Funeral Home software platform provides your customers with the ability to create a FREE online memorial at MemoryBox.com.

According to Dr. Clay Routledge, MemoryBox has been clinically proven to be beneficial in grief recovery. Dr. Routledge is a world-renowned expert in the psychology of memory, nostalgia, and death, the author of 85 scientific papers and the recent book Nostalgia — A Psychological Resource, as well as a popular blogger for Psychology Today.

“Nostalgia acts as a psychological resource that helps people cope with life’s stressors and uncertainties, resulting in increased positive mood, self-esteem, feelings of belongingness, and perceptions of meaning in life. If you’re a family member or friend of someone who’s dying, or of someone who has recently passed, MemoryBox can help you cope with your loss more effectively, delivering real clinical benefits.”

Dr. Clay Routledge

Creating an Online Memorial (Obit) at MemoryBox.com

With a MemoryBox memorial, your customers can post and share photos and memories of their lost loved one, simply, from any device, and from anywhere in the world. And they can do so absolutely free. For a sample online memorial, visit MemoryBox.com.

You can even create a Brand account for your Funeral Home. That way all the online memorials you make on behalf of your customers will always have your logo on them! (See the Cremstar logo right below the Memory’s name in the image below.)

Creating an “Event” Memory at MemoryBox.com

With MemoryBox, you can create several types of Memories: People (e.g. online memorials); Places; Things; Ideas; and Events. Event Memories are unique because they have a specific date and time associated with them. When folks join an Event Memory, as long as their phone is equipped with the MemoryBox app, all the photographs they take during the event are copied from their photo roll and posted to the Event Memory online automatically — even if they’re not actively using the MemoryBox app but just their regular photo function!