Choosing a headstone is a personal and often emotional decision. It marks a place of rest and carries the memory of a life. That’s why the material you choose matters more than most people realize.

When Rosie Grant launched a TikTok channel, GhostlyArchive, as a testament to gravestones, she discovered a niche form of memorial: cemetery markers that bear beloved recipes of the dearly departed.

Debbie McNutt often joked that she would only share her recipe for tea biscuits over her dead body. So, when this elementary school teacher, wife and mother from Truro, Nova Scotia, died in 2019 from ...