30/08/2025                                                                            
                                    
                                                                            
                                            Hi everyone ☺️ it's been a while since I posted on here. I was seeing if restinparadise.ie will take off or not and leaving it to the public to decide. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's going to happen 🥹 I was the first person to set up and announce an affordable death and remembrance website in Ireland, hoping to save people money during one of the toughest times of their lives, losing a loved one.
I contacted so many Funeral Homes in Ireland to get onboard with restinparadise but what has happened is: 
A lot of these funeral directors have now set up their own websites, which means that when someone goes to them to plan a funeral of a loved one, these funeral directors will recommend their own website, rather than restinparadise or rip. 
As you can imagine, that will work out better for them. 
Also, some of the funeral homes in Ireland have decided to stay with rip, as some members of the public don't mind paying the €100 per vat per death notice.
Some of these other websites that have been set up by funeral directors have copied some of restinparadises' ideas such as the 'Digital Candle' idea straight from my website. Which means they were watching the progress of my website throughout this time. This is a compliment, as I have put so much into this myself with my own visions and ideas and absolute zero experience or help from anyone and my own savings.  My goal was just to save people money during a time of grief.
The experience I do have is that I have been running my own little business making Personalised Gifts and Remembrance Gifts for 8 years, from Rosary Beads, to Slates, Candles, Photo Pin Charms, Remembrance plaques, Christmas Remembrance Baubles etc I love making them 🤍🤍🥰
So I have two options for Rest In Paradise:
1) To Sell it. 
If someone is interested in buying it, the website, the name etc. Please PM me. You can make it your own and push it out there more than I can. I will put you in contact with my website designers. It is already known by so many people but it has so much more potential. It just needs someone who has more time than me for marketing.
I also believe the 'uploading' of Remembrance Notices needs to be made a little easier and more straightforward, as some people struggled with how to upload their notices. They really wanted to post on RestinParadise but found the uploading a little complicated. 
Although, once you get the hang of it it is pretty straightforward. 
A website designer out there might be able to come up with an easier solution. 
2) Keep it as a Website for Remembrance Notices only. Such as.... Birthday Notices, Family Notices, Months Mind Mass.
And have no Death Notices on it. 
I would love your feedback on all of this 👍
And thank you so much to everyone who Uploaded your Loved One's notices onto Rest in Paradise 🤍 It is an absolute honour to have their memory posted up on the Rest in Paradise website. 🤍
Thank you to those who supported this page, followed it, recommended it, sent lovely messages, none of it went unnoticed.
Laura 🤍🤍🤍