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Nearly
Departed

The most interesting people nearby are already dead.

A map of the remarkable dead buried around you — pulled from public records, with a lazy-loaded life story for each.

Private by default

No tracking, no data on our servers.

Drawn from the record

Wikidata, Wikipedia & OpenStreetMap.

Nearly Departed — Joey Ramone's grave, 0.1 km away, with dates, a bio, and directions
How it works

Three taps from where you stand to who's beneath it.

Nearly Departed onboarding screen
Locate

Stand anywhere

Open the app and share your location — or search any city or cemetery by name. No sign-up needed to explore, no tracking. It just starts.

Map and ranked list of notable burials near Hillside Cemetery, New Jersey
Discover

See who's near

A dark map and a ranked list of the notable dead around you — grouped by cemetery, sorted by distance. "138 notable souls within 10 km" — and one of them is Joey Ramone.

Joey Ramone detail page with dates, bio, and directions
Read

Know their story

Tap anyone for a lazy-loaded life — dates, epitaph, a Wikipedia bio, and walking directions to the grave. Yes, Joey Ramone is 0.1 km away.

Account optional. Browse as a guest. No tracking. No ad SDKs, no analytics. On your device. Your favorites never leave it. Public records. Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap.
Questions

The short answers.

Is this… respectful?

That's the intent. Cemeteries are places of remembrance, often on private property with their own rules and hours. The app grants no right of access — it asks you to obey posted hours and signage and treat every site, and the people remembered there, with respect.

Where does the data come from?

Public, community-maintained sources: burial records and coordinates from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, biographies and images from Wikipedia. Pins are cemetery-level — approximate, not an exact plot — so always verify before you travel.

Do you collect my location?

No. Your coordinates are sent to those public services only as part of a search query, and never stored by us. The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

When can I actually download it?

It's entering iOS beta now. Drop your email below and we'll send an invite the moment the next round opens.

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