One person never holds the whole story.
Story Lantern gathers what everyone remembers — the sister, the neighbour, the friend from work — and weaves it into one biography that reads like a life, not a comment thread.
When someone dies, their story scatters. It lives in the people who knew them, in pieces, and most of those pieces are never said out loud — because nobody asks, or because the moment to ask passes.
This is a way of asking. You start a lantern for someone, share a link with the people who loved them, and each person is taken through a gentle conversation about what they remember. No account, no app to learn, nothing to work out. They talk; we listen and write it down.
Then those separate memories are woven into a single continuous biography — a piece of writing, not a wall of clips.
How it goes
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Start a lantern
You give their name. We talk with you first — who they were to you, and the shape of their life.
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Share the link
Anyone you send it to can add a memory from their phone. No sign-up, no app.
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Memories gather
Each conversation is transcribed as it happens, in the contributor's own words.
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The biography is written
Everything collected is woven into one continuous story you can read, keep and share.
Who makes it
Story Lantern is built by NearFuture.tech. If you have a question about how any of it works — or what happens to what you share — write to us and a person will answer.