This should be zero stars. This site stole my mom’s obituary WITHOUT consent. I will not be sending an email, I need a customer service line. There’s no reason that my mom’s obituary should be on a we... Mehr ansehen
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This should be zero stars. This site stole my mom’s obituary WITHOUT consent. I will not be sending an email, I need a customer service line. There’s no reason that my mom’s obituary should be on a we... Mehr ansehen
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Somehow an obituary has appeared for my Aunt on your platform without our family’s prior authorization or knowledge. What’s written makes no sense. I hope no one falls for this “light a candle” bs. Sh... Mehr ansehen
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How can Echovita continue to operate?? They rewrite obits and ask for charitable donations based on a fabricated obit? This happened to a friend of mine in Canada, which even made the National news.... Mehr ansehen
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How unethical and cruel to repost information about someone’s death and share their funeral and family details without consent. This company should be ashamed and shut down. They have not only r... Mehr ansehen
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Have not asked our permission to list the obituaries for our family members and collecting donations for their own monetary gain. Hopefully a lawsuit comes out against this company, and they go defunct for their disgrace against those who have passed.

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Thought I was at a legitimate website for the original obituary had to pay to light a candle but the original website you light one for free. I was scammed in a moment of sadness, just wasn’t thinking but learned a lesson also I hope the flowers make it☹️

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Unfortunately, one is the lowest option. They stole my brother's obituary information from a legitimate site for their own gain. In a painful time of loss and bereavement they chose to feed off other people's grief. Despicable.

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Echovita Obituaries
It is a shame that one cannot give 0 starts for a rating because this company deserves no better. This sentiment, and my opinion of this company, mirrors the experience and the opinions of many other individuals who have been affected by the practices of Echovita as you can see by reading other reviews of the company.
Essentially, they post obituaries completely unauthorized by the families of the deceased on their web site. The obituary is re-written from the official obituaries posted by the responsible funeral home, presumably to circumvent copyright infringement violations, and peppered with other family information such as identities, etc. garnered from internet sources. In our case some of this information in the obituary they posted was erroneous, and specific names were published without our permission.
The position of the company, as articulated in their responses to numerous complaints online, and in their specific response to my demand that the obituary in question be removed, is that they are serving a public good by communicating information. However, their unauthorized obituaries are completely superfluous. The information is already communicated in the family-authorized original obituary posted by the funeral home and readily available to all on the internet.
If the purpose of the company was to do a public good and communicate information, they should simply seek permission from the affected family in writing before posting the obituary, or even better, ask the bereaved family to review the obituary for content and accuracy before publishing it. This would not seem to be an excessive burden. They do not do this! Rather, it is my opinion, and that of many others who have shared in my family’s experience as noted in their reviews, that the purpose of Echovita’ s obituaries is to sell flowers and other memorial products. While I am a firm believer in capitalism, there have to be ethical limits and publishing unauthorized obituaries, with uncorroborated information by the family of the deceased, with the purpose of selling products, in my opinion steps over that ethical line. To reiterate, since the official obituary prepared by the family and posted by the funeral home on the internet is disseminated without limits and is available to all, and contains accurate information actually approved by the decedent's family, and the only information the family of the deceased wishes to be posted, there is absolutely no need or altruistic purpose for these Echovita obituaries. In our case, this unsolicited and unauthorized obituary has been confusing to acquaintances of our deceased family member who have contacted us.
As noted in several other reviews posted on Trust Pilot, Echovita’ s business plan uses families and their friends at a most vulnerable time in their lives.
I urge all who have unfortunately lost a loved one to make certain that the only obituary published is from the funeral home responsible, and the obituary that the family wants to see in print.

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This company poaches information from original obituaries and posts them on their website without permission. There is no contact with the family. They posted my brother-in-law’s “rewritten” obituary without permission shortly after the original obituary was posted by the funeral home. They aren’t providing a service. They are being unethical.

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They used our family members obituary and allowed a bitter ex girlfriend to change the photo and add tons of old photos making it seem like they were still together. How can you allow someone to change the photo on a families loved ones obituary???

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This company was horrible. I ordered flowers for my aunt’s funeral from their website. The flowers never came because the floral shop couldn’t deliver to that address. The funeral was a suburban area of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. You can’t tell me that they couldn’t find one local florist in the area that could deliver an order in a timely fashion. I would never recommend Echovita.

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Giving one star because there’s no option to give zero. Stole details from my uncle’s obit and posted it without approval from the family for their own financial gain…. Couldn’t imagine a lower, grosser, greedier type of human being than those who run this company

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This company did not get my permission to write their inacurate version of my mother's obituary. It's horrible to that.

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Company does not get permission from grieving family to post data about your lost loved one. They include links to purchase candle lighting/tree planting in no way connected with the funeral home that we used. Is that how they make money on my grief?

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I am heartbroken that this awful website stole my mother's obituary and published it when we had only given permission for the funeral home and select papers. Not only that, information they published was incorrect. This shameful site preys on families at their most vulnerable times. Disgusting.

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Echovita stole information from my fathers obituary, changed the information and added untrue information.
What a disgusting thing to do! Huge scammers!

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EDIT (for additional clarity on their truly awful business practices):
I am not allowed to post links, but I would encourage you to do a search for Echovita online, in particular articles from Wired, CBC, CTV, La Presse, and others that give full details of the owner's previous business (which was sued for $20 million, lost in court, and then filed for bankruptcy to avoid paying out), the new business model (slightly different just to avoid complete plagiarism, but in the process making a bunch of costly mistakes), and the countless stories of grieving families who have had to deal with them during their most difficult times.
They can hide behind legalities all they want, but what they are doing is immoral and causes unnecessary pain for families. They may try to flag for defamation, but all I am saying is the truth. They don’t like being “insulted” so will try to defend their predatory actions. Just look at the numerous complaints from grieving families and confused funeral homes. Their “human” error can cause unimaginable pain for those who are already suffering. Just a terrible business.

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When we lost our uncle, the family created a page with a personalized obituary on the Dignity Memorial website. Less than a week later we found an unauthorized obituary, along with links to buy flowers, light a digital candle (for a fee of course), or plant trees in his memory. The link to the fake obituary was also posted to Facebook.
This has confused several family members, as they believed the Echovita page was the official page created by the family. At least one person spent $60 planting trees believing that this was asked for by the family.
If you create an account and attempt to reply to the person who mistakenly spent money on their website, it will show your comment as posted. However, once you log out and check again, no comment exists. They know what they're doing and it's absolutely shameful.
They claim to be providing a social service by sharing public obituaries, but they aren't simply sharing the obituary. They are making requests for money and only "sharing" the commission with the family if they happen to discover the page and claim it. If the family wanted to work with Echovita they would have utilized it in the first place. If Echovita wanted to be an honest business, they would have contacted the family first. They didn't and their intentions are obvious.
We've made several requests to remove the page and have yet to receive a reply.

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I have used them twice and am very happy with the quality and the beauty of the arrangement - the heart shaped with white flowers smaller standing one. i will continue to use Echovita when the need arises. The flowers were delivered timely and they got my whole very lengthy message on the card. Easy to use and great experience.
Paco is at it again!
After getting sued for his website "Afterlife" Pascal "Paco" Leclerc has replaced it with the new and improved ""Echovita" where they copy information from legitimate obituaries, throw it through what I can only imagine is the b*stard child of a blender and chatGPT, and spit out garbage to entice grieving people to buy flowers, light a candle etc. Learning from his previous lawsuit* and the complete lack of legislation surrounding abhorrent sites like these, no photos are posted. Because he's nice like that (no really it's because he needs permission for that) But they'll use you for site traffic and hope you click on the ads and maybe even "send flowers" and who is kidding who. Is anyone checking up to see if they actually get delivered? No. The rest of us have class. Take notes Paco. (They use Blooms Today for flower orders. Look up their rating and reviews and draw your own conclusions.)
Oh no! Flagged for defamation! Everything in this review is also public information, so go on. The Bereavement Authority of Ontario warns the public about this** It's cute how you instantly defend your vile practices. You are making money off the deaths of people whose loved ones did not choose you. Legal or not, it's disgusting, and no matter how much you defend it, you know it's true. And you still do it. Your morals have receeded further than your hairline. I have proven my allegations with credible sources. My review is true and well informed. Compare it to the "favorable reviews" that seem to pop up quite quickly after a negative review has been posted. Interesting.
* Trustpilot does not allow links, please Google "Afterlife obituary piracy" where you will find news articles from Global news and the Globe and Mail reporting on the $20 million lawsuit which names Paco Leclerc
** The Bereavement Authority of Ontario has a notice on their website specifically naming Echovita and describing their practices

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Fast delivery & the flowers offered are beautiful! The ease of use is wonderful!

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Beautiful arrangement and user friendly website
No option for zero stars?
My family is being victimized with an edited version of the original obituary. They re-wrote the obituary which is full of grammatical errors and incorrect information. I sincerely hope our friends and family don't purchase anything linked from this unethical site!! I've requested for the obituary to be taken down and I hope they comply.

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What Joy H said. This website takes obituaries and republishes them using different wording then asks people for flowers. Do not trust this website. May karma absolutely come for you echovita. This is low.

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