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... See more
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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... See more
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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... See more
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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.... See more
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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... See more
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I ordered a flower arrangement from Echovita on Thursday morning, to be delivered to a funeral home in time for 4:00 pm calling hours the following Saturday. I chose the funeral home’s address from the options on Echovita’s website. My credit card was charged immediately. At noon on Saturday, 4 hours before the service and more than 48 hours after my order was placed, I received a voicemail from Echovita telling me they were unable to fulfill my order because they don’t deliver to the address I requested - the very same address that was offered as a delivery option on their website. I don’t know why it took them 2 days to tell me they couldn’t fulfill my order, or why they have a delivery address on their website that they can’t deliver to. All in all, a frustrating and disappointing experience.
6/19/25 Responding to Echovita’s reply: Thank you for your reply. Perhaps there is an issue with your website that needs to be addressed. I would be happy to share screenshots, here on Trustpilot, to confirm that I in fact placed my order on the Echovita website, if there was a way to share them here. Also, no popup appeared when I placed the order. In any case, the issue with Echovita’s website offering a delivery address that they do not honor is on Echovita and not on any third party that they may relay an order to. Furthermore, Echovita should respect their responsibility to advise their customers of issues with an order in a timely manner. I trust this helps to clarify things,
**Echovita advertises to provide a service to those who have lost a loved one. However, I am appalled at Echovita’s unprofessionalism and lack of empathy, as evidenced in their condescending comments here.

Reply from Echovita
Echovita appears to be minimally a morally corrupt business and taking advantage of the open internet. They "scrubbed" my Mom's obituary from a legitimate site, changed some content and made all sorts of mistakes. Example, listing a non-existing significant other, listing grandkids as both kids and grandkids. They then hope that friends, families and loved ones will purchase from their links. You can read of people's experiences on this site to see the numerous complaints.
They will reply to this review and tell me they are completely legitimate though based upon the number of "1 star" reviews, judge for yourself. Also, Google "Echovita Canada Report CBC" to read about them from August 4th, 2024.
June 10, 2025: Via Trustpilot, Echovita reached out and asked me for corrections which I gave, and they amended their version of the obituary. While this appreciated, I stand by my 1-star rating. With all the negative feedback listed on Trustpilot and bad actual news story press, it is easy to see this is not a one-off mistake for their "legitimate business."

Reply from Echovita
Echovita took the information from my mother’s obituary on our CHOSEN mortuary site and created their own unauthorized obituary. I did not give them permission to do this and it is obvious from the layout of the page that the intent is to dupe people into purchasing trees, flowers, candles to show support to my family. This is an insensitive and awful thing to do to a family who is grieving a loved one. I have requested that the obituary page be taken down. The company says it may take three of more days to do so. I hope they follow through.

Reply from Echovita
Failed to send flowers to a wake on Feb 11, 2025, then offered to send them after burial!!
Charged my credit card 3 times, and credited my credit card 2 times
I still await my refund
Snakes!
Post Script: my credit card shows 3 charges and 2 credits! The statement does not lie!

Reply from Echovita
Echovita was not authorized by our family to post and profit from my wife's obituary. How low can they go?

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Echovita took my wife’s obituary and changed it in order to profit from online sales of Memorial items and donations. I have requested the company remove the obituary. They changed just enough of the wording to skirt copyright infringement for our local news outlets and the funeral home

Reply from Echovita
Limited, erroneous information. I knew our mom was special, but even she does not require two different start times for the service and two different start times for burial. If you are re-posting an obituary, you have a responsibility to get the facts right concerning date and time.

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You are a scam...it's a dispicable act..you have scraped the obituary written today on my mother..you have reworded the carefully prepared thoughts and reflections of a family..
It is a shameful act..
I will post this everywhere I can think of.so more people are aware.
A .S. in Canada

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I want to say something on the behalf of Echovita. You guys are truly amazing and I want to thank you for the very nice and beautiful things you said about my Wife Heather Jane Short. By no means did they steal anything from an obituary. What they said was genuine and heartfelt. Thank you guys so very much. With solemn reverence, we commemorate Heather Jane Short of Three Rivers, Michigan, born in Sturgis, Michigan, whose life came to an end on January 8, 2025 at the age of 49, leaving behind cherished memories. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Heather Jane Short to show support.
As we bid farewell to this luminous soul, let her loved ones carry forward the torch of her memory, illuminating the path ahead with the warmth of her love and the brilliance of her spirit. Though Heather Jane may journey beyond the horizon of our sight, her essence remains woven into the very fabric of our being — a guiding light in the darkness, a beacon of hope in the night. very beautiful 😭😭😭😭

Reply from Echovita
0 stars. Taking advantage of people at their most vulnerable. You have no ethical right to re-write carefully written obituaries and create inauthentic & disrespectful fake ones, pulling & re-writing very personal info without permission. Families should not have to waste time requesting removal, you should not be mining people’s details for your own use in the first place. Absolutely disgusting company, pretending to provide a ‘service’ to the public. Re-writing the carefully written words of families without any consent is incredibly intrusive at a difficult time. The replies to the other reviews show a complete lack of self-awareness. You do not have consent to create these fake write-ups that can rank in Google even higher than what a family has written and appear real.
“ The Funeral Service Association of Canada (FSAC) said it has concerns about the practice which it referred to as “obituary scraping or pirating.”
“ The company names may be different, but it’s the same old game.
The Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) is alerting the public again about companies that are ‘pirating’ or copying obituaries to their websites…
A company called Afterlife.co was doing this until 2019 when a federal court judge ordered it to pay $20 million as the result of a class action lawsuit. The company later ended its operations. In recent years, Echovita was formed by one of the directors of the Afterlife.co”

Reply from Echovita
Long story short:
For lack of a better word or phrase This website is a scam.
Short story LONG:
I'm not sure how I would even classify this website,
What other possible reason would these people have to scour the internet looking for obituaries just to repost them on their own website WITH NO AUTHORIZATION?
I found both my father in law and my wife on their website and I can say for a FACT they did NOT HAVE permission.
what's more is we had already done an obituary both on the funeral home website and in the newspaper.
I'm sure almost every funeral home offers this, but My father in law and my wife's obituary both had the option to
" sign the book of condolences"
And/or.
" Light a candle"
And if you go look at an obituary on echovita.com you will see they too give you a similar offer, they give you the option to " light a candle" or " plant a tree" but in their case they
make you PAY FOR that.
ONE positive thing to say about it though,
Even though I don't know how or why they got the obituaries, when I contacted them and alsed them to cease and desist they did so IMMEDIATELY.

Reply from Echovita
They repost an obituary giving the address of the church service in another province. Plus when you go to the address given it is not even the name of the church.

Reply from Echovita
Terrible company that takes official family obituaries and then creates their own unauthorized obituaries asking for donations. They created an unauthorized obituary with the incorrect address for the reception. I went to their website to have this unauthorized obit taken down. The website says it'll take up to 3 days to take it down which will be after the funeral. For a company to prey on grieving families is despicable.

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I wouldn't even give them one star if offered the option! My dad died 5 days ago, & these vultures swooped in & totally butchered the obit, & excluded my husband, & all of my dad's grandchildren, among other things. The REAL obit was written by my mom, & is beautiful & really honors my dad's memory. I contacted Echovita to remove the obit (I admit I used some strong words--no bad words though--not my style), & we shall see where it goes from here. I literally felt sick to my stomach when I found my dad's inaccurate, unauthorized obit on there. If I have my way, they will not make ONE RED CENT off of my father's death. This should NOT be legal what they do. One day they will give an account before their Maker.

Reply from Echovita
The Obituary you have done for a Matthew Zacamy needs to be taken down from the obituaries of Freeport page on Facebook. His family NEVER authorized it, nor what it said. They are currently trying to write up one that they want to share with other family and friends.

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This company has yet stole another information and is attempting to sell "service" for loved one that has passed away. We did not even give permission or let Echovita post the orbits. She has passed away in 2020. Do not support or donate money to this company. One quick look with search engine shows that it's not the first time Echovita has done this.

Reply from Echovita
Please take this down. I did not request this be added to your site and there are errors. Just awful you are doing this without permission:
Lester Kline Robert Obituary of Honomu, HI

Reply from Echovita
Take down Dillon Carroll obituary.
You got it all wrong. And I wrote everything I wanted in there. You left out very important people. No one asked for you to print his obituary. Take it down
Dillon Thomas Carroll Chillicothe Ohio
If you don't I will absolutely will find a way to take it down - his mom

Reply from Echovita
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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