What Happened to Cake, the End-of-Life Planning Site

Foundation Partners Group announced its acquisition of Cake in September 2024. Cake's consumer planning service has since closed, and joincake.com now directs readers to Altogether Funeral.^[1][3]

Need your Cake documents? Email support@altogetherfuneral.com. Altogether's current FAQ offers help through limited legacy access, but recovery isn't guaranteed. Previously shared Cake account links no longer work.^[3]

Read the Cake closure and recovery FAQ. To choose another service, compare current planning platforms.

Platform sources checked September 13, 2026. Recovery availability can change.

Suelin Chen created Cake in 2015.^[1] The site offered end-of-life planning checklists, healthcare and funeral preference forms, and a library of thousands of articles on death and dying. By the acquisition announcement's count, over 100 million people had used Cake's digital catalog.^[1]

Older recommendations may describe a different product from the one readers find today. Check the current service and its recovery options before relying on those recommendations.

On September 5, 2024, Foundation Partners Group announced it had acquired Cake.^[1] In its October 2024 Afterall announcement, Foundation Partners described a network of more than 250 funeral homes, cemeteries, and direct-to-consumer cremation businesses.^[2] The announcement talked about aligning Cake's resources with that network.^[1]

A month later, on October 2, 2024, Foundation Partners launched Afterall, a digital hub built around its funeral network.^[2] The release described funeral-provider search, obituaries, planning resources, and a memorial store.^[2]

Altogether's FAQ confirms Cake's closure and publishes instructions for former account holders in its Cake closure category.^[3]

Type joincake.com into a browser today and you land on altogetherfuneral.com, the trade name of Foundation Partners' network of funeral, cremation, and cemetery providers.^[3] The destination is a funeral-provider site; use its Cake FAQ for current account information.^[3]

The current FAQ refers to a June 15 document-download deadline without stating a year beside it. It also says limited legacy access may still be available for recovery inquiries. That published offer doesn't guarantee that any particular account or file can be recovered.^[3]

Start with Altogether's support team. Its FAQ says account-sharing links are inactive and that staff may be able to help while limited legacy access remains available.^[3]

Keep any downloaded, printed, or signed copies you already have. If you're unsure whether a will or directive meets your state's requirements or still reflects your wishes, ask a licensed attorney in your state to review it. Your state guide links to the applicable official resources.

If your plan was stored only in Cake, contact support@altogetherfuneral.com before assuming it's lost. Recovery isn't guaranteed, and information entered in Cake's End-of-Life Wishes form may no longer be retrievable.^[3] If support can't recover it, use the planning checklist to identify what you need to rebuild. Keep your own copy and tell the people you trust where to find it.

Lantern also retired after an acquisition. Its former users have a separate document-recovery route through Wellthy.^[4] The options depend on the service, so check the current instructions for the account you used.

Before choosing a replacement, check what you can download, what costs money, and how another person can access your plan. Save a copy you can keep and tell your family where to find it.

Our platform comparison explains what each service offers and includes MORTL. The planning checklist helps you organize the decisions and documents to review.

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Sources: Foundation Partners Group's acquisition announcement (September 5, 2024); Connecting Directors' coverage of the Afterall launch (October 2, 2024); Altogether's own FAQ pages. Acquisition sources and Altogether's interactive Cake closure FAQ checked September 13, 2026. In the FAQ, select the Cake closure category and open the document-recovery question. See our Sources & Methodology.

Correction, September 13, 2026: an earlier version said a plan stored only in Cake was lost. Altogether's current FAQ offers limited recovery assistance without a guarantee. We've corrected the account guidance and FAQ.

This article is education. It doesn't replace legal advice. For your state's exact signing rules, start with your state guide.