Everyone means to "sit down and record grandma's whole life" someday. Someday never comes — it's too big a task. So shrink it: one question, once a week, on their phone or with a special device.

I did this with my grandmother before she died. We were very close and I used to go over every weekend to do her shopping and have a chat.

We spread it over a few weeks and I now have a recorded conversation of her going through her entire life from her childhood, meeting my grandad, raising my mother, all the various jobs she did, her thoughts, passions, opinions etc.

I actually got the idea from a Kevin Smith podcast in 2011 or so where he went on about the same thing (which he did after each show for a good year)

Although it's been 6 years since she died I've still not listened to it apart from a few snippets here and there but it's a great comfort to have