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Conversations about
Death ,Mortality & Data
“With out death the world would be a terrible place.
Imagine a world where Hitler is still alive....”
Family Guy

Friday, September 21, 12

Difficult words to pronounce:
Embalming
Choreographer
Burial


Possible Domains
1. Conception of Mortality
2. Traces of life - Digital legacy
3. Regulation around death (laws,
government and religion, arrangements)
4. A vacation to death / death simulation
when joining the army
5. Shape of time & meaning of life,
(one year to live vs 30 years).


Conversations
1. Melanie
2. Matt
3. Patricio
4. Sable
5. K.J
6. Eldad
7. Gili
8. Dad


SocialEmbalmers
Embalming / Restorative Art:
The art and science of temporarily preserving human remains to
make them suitable for public display at a funeral. Embalming has a
very long and cross-cultural history, with many cultures giving the
embalming processes a greater religious meaning.


Lenin’s corpse Takes a Bath


SocialMorticians
Funeral Directors:
A professional involved in the business of funeral rites.
These tasks often entail the embalming and burial or
cremation of the dead, as well as the planning and
arrangement of the actual funeral ceremony.


SocialExecutioners
Execution Vans:
A converted 24-seat bus, the execution van keeps
the appearance of a normal police van on the
outside with no markings indicating its purpose.
Prisoners are strapped to a stretcher and executed
via lethal injection inside the van. The vans allow for
death sentences to be carried out without having to
move the prisoner to an execution ground.


SocialSuiciders
Suicide Bridge /Bridge jumpers:
Thea bridge used frequently to die by suicide.
Since the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937 there
have been at least 1,400 suicides — many cases are
not included in the official count because bodies
were not found, even when a suicide was witnessed.

Suicide Notes
“I’m just too lazy to navigate further,”
“‘The future is just old age and illness and pain… I
must have peace and this is the only way.”
“To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?


SocialQuija
Talking Board:
A flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet,
the numbers 0-9, the words "yes", "no",
"hello" (occasionally), and "goodbye", along with
various symbols and graphics which markets and
distributes the Ouija Board as part of its line of
board games. It uses a small heart-shaped piece of
wood or movable indicator to indicate the spirit's
message by spelling it out on the board during a
séance.


SocialCoroner
A Government Official who:
■ Investigates human deaths
■ Determines cause of death
■ Issues death certificates
■ Maintains death records
■ Responds to deaths in mass disasters
■ Identifies unknown dead
■ Other functions depending on local laws
■ Determines manner of death


Jeremi Rimel
Autopsy Babies
“A series of one of a kind, handpainted custom horror dolls. Each
Autopsy Baby is made from a
recycled vinyl baby doll body as a
platform, often second hand.
Dissected and mis-created, the
dolls are made in a high quality
fashion with durable parts and
superb textures and details.” from
his website


Merce
Cunningham
1919 – 2009
Modern dancer
and choreographer.
Choreographed one solo, “Loops,”
that HE never taught to another
dancer. This piece lives on through
a different medium: digital motion
capture. “Loops” explores rotations
of all kinds.


Jae Rhim Lee
Infinity Burial Project
The first prototype of the Infinity Burial
Suit is a body suit decorated with
thread infused with mushroom spores.
An alternative burial system that uses
mushrooms to decompose and clean
toxic fluid bodies.
“I imagine the Infinity Mushroom as a
symbol of a new way of thinking about
death and the relationship between my
body and the environment.”


Grave Stones QR codes
Preserve memory with technology:
Allow people to connect with the dead. The Quick
Response codes can be scanned by mobile phones to
launch a biography of the deceased.
The online page triggered by the small barcode-type
squares can show a profile of the person, pictures and
videos of them and tributes from family and friends.


Have you made
arrangements
for your death
lately?
1. Engage with Grace
To make sure that all of us can end
our lives in the same purposeful
way we lived them.

2. ifidie
What happens to my FB after I am
gone? I can decided now while still
alive!


The one thing we all have in common:

DEATH


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