The galaxy
Move through it yourself.
Open any bright star to read who they were. The small lights around it are candles, left by people who came.
Choose a name
Seven example people are named here. The other lights are decoration.
Explore Afterglow
See how it works.
Try it here with example people. Light a real star whenever you are ready.
Light a star
Share their story
Add to a star
The real sky is one step away.
Light a real star for someone you love.
Memorial pages
A permanent place, not a post that scrolls away.
Every star can open into a full memorial: their photographs, their story in the words of whoever keeps it, a timeline of the life, and the memories other people brought.
Community
Nobody should carry it alone.
The hardest part is rarely the funeral. It is month seven, when everyone else has moved on and you have not. Afterglow puts you in a small room with people whose loss looks like yours.
No advice unless asked
No fixing, no stages, and nobody comparing whose loss was worse.
Why it exists
Grief is the love we carry after someone is gone.
Afterglow is not here to fix your grief. Grief is not a malfunction, and it does not need treating. It is what love turns into when the person is no longer here to receive it.
What people are missing is not a cure. It is somewhere to put it.
01
Remember them
A permanent place in a shared sky, found by their name, returned to on their birthday and on the day you lost them.
02
Tell their story
In your own words, at whatever length it takes. Not an obituary. The small things nobody else would think to write down.
03
Be heard
Someone lights a candle and it becomes a small light orbiting their star. No counts, no rankings, no most-resonant grief.
04
Find people who understand
Rooms held by people who have been in them. No advice unless it is asked for, and nobody comparing whose loss was worse.
Afterglow is being built by someone who lost his sister, and then lost his brother, who was left to carry her death almost entirely alone in a house where nobody knew how to talk about what they felt. The grief had nowhere to go.
One idea runs through all of it: do not carry it alone, and do not stay quiet.
Still to come
What comes after the sky.
Designed, not yet built.
Later
Their memorial as a book
The story, the photographs and every tribute, printed. The thing families ask for most.
Later
Memorial funds
Linked out to a campaign the family already runs. We will never be the ones holding anybody’s money.