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My dad passed on this morning at 9:50 a.m.We are a small family who will reminisce by phone and gatherings. But for large families or those who are split across the country or continent making phone calls, even email and planning for funerals, etc. can be overwhelming.

Louise and Monte Zweben have created a website, out of their own experiences of family loss, that will be helpful to so many. This wonderful new service is used to notify family and friends about the death of a family/close friend and the upcoming schedule/location of related services when otherwise it’s all too stressful and difficult.

Sympathy Tree is a new website and service that can be an important part of the ongoing grieving and healing process as well. When people gather at a funeral or a memorial service, they see friends and relatives they have not seen in a while. Together they pay tribute, share stories and memories, and comfort one another. It’s often a very cathartic and reflective experience. Louise and Monte realized that this experience could be extended beyond the funeral events by creating a virtual place online where people can come together to grieve, heal, and comfort each other for generations to come. Thus the birth of SympathyTree.com, a place where children, grandchildren and other friends and family can visit anytime from anywhere in the world to converse, tell stories, enrich those stories with photos and videos, and allow others to add their own thoughts and photos to stories.

Louise and Monte Zweben‘s vision is for SympathyTree to become a site where people come to celebrate the lives of those they have recently lost and share their stories of love and loss, sadness and joy, and in the process, provide comfort to each other during this difficult time. They see SympathyTree as the place where future generations can treasure those stories and “get to know” their grandparents and great grandparents. Finally, they invision it to be a site through which immediately family members of the deceased can notify their friends and family privately about the services and assist them during the most stressful time of their lives.