Archive for the ‘Afterlife’ Category
Cryopreserve Me into the FUTURE!
20, Aug 2011In Pictures: Frozen in Time Photographer Murray Ballard catalogues the world of cryonics, which involves freezing a dead person’s body in liquid nitrogen until technology has advanced enough to bring them back to life. Photographer Murray Ballard’s Best Shot ‘This is a cryonics lab. Four whole bodies can be frozen in each vat. But just [...]
Jewish Burial Gets Back to the Roots
14, Dec 2010Reviving a Ritual of Tending to the Dead Paul Vitello, The New York Times (December 13, 2010) A new generation of Jewish volunteers is learning how to prepare a body for burial using techniques that attend to “the feelings of the dead.” It has been a good year for people who want to re-discover the [...]
- By: John
- In: Afterlife|Burial
- Tags: anthropology, green burial, religion
Head of the Household
16, Jul 2010Interesting article in last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine about cryonics; or more to the point, cryonocists and the people who love them. The article is fascinating for the fact that it delves not so much into the science informing cryonic preservation (as our last cryonics post did) but rather, about how differing beliefs about the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Humor|Death + Technology|Defying Death
- Tags: cryonics
Deathly Art at DIA
3, Jun 2010Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, has joined the ever-growing population of deathly artworks at the Denver International Airport (DIA). Denver’s local ABC affiliate, KMGH, reports that horrified travelers are now greeted by the 26-foot tall statue upon arrival in the main terminal. Anubis is being erected in anticipation of the Denver Art Museum’s [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Art / Architecture|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: public art, religion
Fire, Beauty and Death in Bali
14, Apr 2010What does a cremation sound like? Most of us in the Western world would be hard-pressed to answer that question. Cremation is something that takes place out of sight, and for most, out of mind. The fiery furnaces are lit, the body is rolled in and a few hours later, ashes to ashes, dust to [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Cremation|Grief + Mourning
- Tags: anthropology, audio, Bali