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Someone has died
Answer four questions and get the first tasks in a sensible order. Share the plan so one person does not have to carry every call, document, and decision.
Get the next stepsPrivate funeral planning for families
Plan a funeral together, even when your family is apart.
Hestia guides your family through what must happen, what can wait, and who is handling each decision. Work together privately across cities, countries, and time zones, then contact a provider only when you are ready.
Guidance is free. Your family space is private. Provider discovery is optional.
Choose where to begin
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I am planning ahead
Record your wishes, existing arrangements, important documents, and the people who should know where to find them.
Start my planFree family space
One shared plan, without another group chat.
Invite the people helping with the arrangements. Everyone can see the same tasks, decisions, notes, and provider information, whenever their time zone allows.
- Assign each next step to a specific person.
- Record decisions once instead of repeating them on calls.
- Compare written prices and provider responses together.
- Share only the information your family chooses to send.
Know what’s next
Turn urgent decisions into specific tasks
Keep tasks, questions, notes, and responsibilities together so the family can see what needs attention.
Plan together
Give everyone the same information
Invite relatives, share responsibilities, and keep decisions out of scattered texts, calls, and spreadsheets.
Explore locally
Research Nashville-area providers
We are signing up Nashville providers now, one confirmed business at a time. Until a category has participating providers, the guides tell you what to ask any business you find yourself.
Find the services your family needs
Death care is spread across funeral homes, cremation providers, hospices, attorneys, cemeteries, celebrants, florists, venues, insurers, grief professionals, and other services. Hestia adds these categories as providers sign up and confirm their profiles. Nothing is presented as participating without the business agreeing to it.
Free guides for everyonePlanning aheadA private family spaceFinding local providers
Independent and family-led
Hestia is not owned by a funeral home and takes no money from families. No provider can pay for a better position, and a provider only ever sees what a family deliberately chose to send them. Hestia was built by Hanna Lincoln, whose master's thesis was on commercial pressure and ethics in the death-care industry.
See how Hestia worksPlanning guides
Practical help before, during, and after arrangements.
Each guide covers a specific planning task. No account is required.
First steps
What to do when someone dies
Who to call first, what to gather, and how to start coordinating with family.
Read guideChecklist
Funeral planning checklist
A clear way to keep track of provider questions, documents, service details, and who's helping.
Open checklistTennessee
Legal and local basics
Plain-language Tennessee information on death certificates, who can make decisions, price lists, and questions to ask providers.
View Tennessee guideFamily space
Online funeral planning tool
How a private family space can help your family keep tasks, relatives, requests, and provider notes in the same record.
Read guideQuestions
Questions to ask providers
A practical list of questions to ask about pricing, services, timing, paperwork, and next steps.
View questionsCompare
Compare funeral homes
A way to compare provider options that looks past a single headline price.
Compare optionsNashville
How to choose a funeral home
Compare written prices, service fit, timing, location, license status, and communication.
Use the checklistWritten prices
Understand a funeral price list
See what belongs on a General Price List and how to compare complete written totals.
Read the price guideService choice
Burial or cremation
Consider the person’s wishes, ceremony, timing, place, family needs, and full cost.
Compare the optionsNashville first
Start with detailed Nashville coverage, then expand.
The planning tools are available to families in any location. The provider side begins in Nashville. We are signing up funeral homes, cremation providers, florists, monument companies, venues, celebrants, livestreaming and grief services now.
For death-care professionals
Reach families who already know what they need.
Nashville funeral homes, hospices, attorneys, celebrants, grief professionals, and related services can create a profile, keep their information current, and receive family inquiries with the details already filled in.