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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

Di!icult words to pronounce:EmbalmingChoreographerBurial

1. Conception of Mortality2. Traces of life - Digital legacy3. Regulation around death (laws, government and religion, arrangements)4. A vacation to death / death simulation when joining the army5. Shape of time & meaning of life, (one year to live vs 30 years).

Possible Domains

1. Melanie2. Matt3. Patricio4. Sable5. K.J6. Eldad7. Gili8. Dad

Conversations

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.

Embalming / Restorative Art:

SocialEmbalmers

Lenin’s corpse Takes a Bath

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.

Funeral Directors:

SocialMorticians

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.

Execution Vans:

SocialExecutioners

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 o!icial count because bodies were not found, even when a suicide was witnessed.

Suicide Bridge /Bridge jumpers:

SocialSuiciders

“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?

Suicide Notes

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.

Talking Board:

SocialQuija

A Government O!icial 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

SocialCoroner

Jeremi RimelAutopsy Babies“A series of one of a kind, hand-painted 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

Modern dancer and choreographer.

1919 – 2009

Choreographed one solo, “Loops,” that HE never taught to another dancer. This piece lives on through a di!erent medium: digital motion capture. “Loops” explores rotations of all kinds.

Jae Rhim Lee

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.”

Infinity Burial Project

Grave Stones QR codes

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.

Preserve memory with technology:

Have you made arrangementsfor your death lately?

To make sure that all of us can end our lives in the same purposeful way we lived them.

1. Engage with Grace

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

2. ifidie

The one thing we all have in common:

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