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Evaheld, a legacy and care planning platform, was created by Australian entrepreneurs Michelle Costa and Michelle Gomes to deliver posthumous content to loved ones. Recognizing that people felt vulnerable and inhibited when creating content to leave after their death, they developed the platform. Click here to create a free account and explore the web-optimized app to explore the platform. (available for all phones and browsers)
The interface allows for video, voice, and written messages to be delivered based on the user’s desired time cycles, so content can be delivered years following one’s death to celebrate birthdays, anniversary, and other important dates. Additionally, a third party can be assigned access to update Evaheld with any information regarding user status or other changes. Evaheld is also used in the Australian Doula College’s program, which shares:
“The ADC recommends Evaheld as an end-to-end platform that their Doulas can use to help their clients create, safekeep and securely deliver Memorialisation and Care Planning content, whenever is right for them, including posthumously. Evaheld and the ADC also jointly conducts Webinars on Legacy and Memorialisation to empower doulas to provide this service to their clients. This covers all aspects of the process, from approaching the subject with clients, to preparation, execution and all the ins and outs.”
The creation of this app was personal for both founders. For Michelle Gomes, her journey started over 20 years ago, after losing a friend in the Bali bombings terrorist attack when she was just 14. She became fascinated by the fragility of life and the fact that from one day to the next everything can change, and that suddenly we can be left with so little of the essence of those we love and our connection with them. And as memories quickly faded with time, what didn’t was her wish that she’d had some kind of tangible keepsake from her friend.
A decade later, the death of another good friend, who had two little boys ages 5 and 7, inspired her journey into the memorialisation space. Her friend had created content for her boys to receive in the future as adults, so that they could know her story in her own words, know how much they were loved, and in some way feel that their mum was still with them.
For Michelle Costa, it was her father’s experience which really augmented her commitment to memorialising people. After the death of her father, who had battled dementia for over a decade, she did not have any personalized content from him or featuring him, except for old family photos. She would have given anything to have a video of him so that she could hear his voice (which she now finds hard to recall), see his face in motion, and feel his love, not only for herself but also for her children. Through Evaheld, she has vowed that if she could help other people who have felt the loss of loved ones to degenerative diseases, often long before their deaths, then she would.