Illustration by Hal Mayforth

You may not be able to choose when you go to your final resting place, but you can customize your sendoff for free on two new funeral-planning websites.  

At Minneapolis-based MyWonderfulLife.com, members plan and share funeral details—including choices for music, and where and how burial will take place. Up to six loved ones can have online access to the member’s wishes and to information for finding the will and bank accounts. 

Founders Sue Kruskopf and Nancy Bush created the site with boomers in mind after Bush lost her husband to lung cancer. “It would have been nice to know what he wanted,” Bush says. 

The London-based YourDeathWish.com offers many of the same services as its U.S. counterpart. Founder Victoria Vanstone came up with the idea after chatting with friends about songs she might want played at her funeral. Members of the site can join an online community and share ideas for funeral services—or, as one member calls them, “going-away parties.”