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Death is a part of life. We all know this, yet we all get very emotional and upset should we lose someone close to our hearts. And rightly so, if we’ve lost someone who we have spent a great deal of time with over the years, of course we should feel this way, we miss them and we want to remember them.

Whether you have lost an old friend, a parent, or worst of all a child, you will want to remember them as they were when they were at their best. The ideal way to do this would be to have a memory box.

Memory boxes are most commonly used for the in the heartbreaking situation of a Mother having a stillbirth or a miscarriage. They are simply boxes that contain representations of how the deceased child was or would have been.

Usually, memory boxes will contain these items, give or take a few depending on the person; moulds of the child’s hands and fingers in clay (or something similar), the child’s inked fingerprints, the birth details of the child along with his/her name, pictures and a lock of hair.

This is not the only situation in which memory boxes are used. It is becoming more and more common for people to make them for themselves when they know that they are on their way out.

This might be appropriate if a parent knows that they are going to die, but their children are young and still need them, or simply if someone has a lot of close friends or family and they want people to remember them, age is not necessarily relevant.

Some items that would probably be included in this case would be; most likely, lots of pictures, mostly of the person with the people that they will give the box to. Also, any personal or trademark belongings, for example if someone always carried a particular watch, then that would probably be included. Fragrances such as perfume or after-shave that the person was known for wearing is fairly common as well.

The boxes are always personalised with the persons name on the outside (well, not always, but usually). They make a perfect keepsake for anyone who has lost someone dear to them until the day comes when they make their own memory box.