[jacksoncarter]

Cemeteries have endowment funds to ensure the land where people are buried will remain land where people are buried. Sites like this have nothing of the sort. I don't even see a business model.

Without something to guarantee people's memories will live long in the site, you run the risk of their loved ones being taken from them twice. You didn't even address this point on the first page, instead just start talking about your nifty features.

You really need to think about how your startup is going to avoid death if you are asking people to put their faith in you when they try to preserve memories of their loved ones.

[tptacek]

Most newspapers already run services like this one. It's not a new idea. All they're doing is making an internet-wide one. The business model? Sell it to end-users or sell it to newspaper obit sections as a managed service.

I'm not sure I see the risk here. Cemeteries are carefully managed because people care a lot about how their remains are cared for. They don't have anything resembling that level of concern over JPG's.

[cmurphycode]

Well, that's the trick, isn't it? You have to make people care enough about their "digital remains" to want the service, but not enough to worry about the risk. Will the new generation of techno-literate users find the happy medium and make this startup successful?