About Requiem
A headstone has room for a name and two dates. A life is rather bigger than that.
Requiem puts a small code on a grave, a bench, a tree or a plaque. Somebody scans it and gets the person: where they came from, what they did, who loved them, and the stories their family wanted kept.
Who makes it
Requiem is built and run by Shane Rounce at AceMedia, which is a very small studio. There is no company behind that with a marketing department in it. When you write in, the person who reads it is the person who wrote the site.
Free to read, free to keep
Reading a memorial costs nothing and always will. There is no subscription, no advertising and nothing on this site is sold to anybody who has just been bereaved.
A memorial can be taken away with you as well. Every page has a plain data export behind it, so what a family writes here is theirs and is not held hostage by us still being here in twenty years.
How it is built
A memorial is often opened standing in a graveyard, on a phone, on one bar of signal. So the pages are small and plain on purpose: no tracking, no advertising network, no fonts or maps fetched from somebody else while you read. The map of a grave is drawn on our own server and served from it.
The one exception is music, where a family has chosen a song. The privacy notice explains exactly when that happens.
Getting in touch
Write to shane@acemedia.ninja. A person answers, not a form.