155,000 persons die each day
Tropenmuseum Amsterdam's exhibit Death Matters
opens 3 November 2011 click here
and addresses how we relate to death throughout the world.
Do we need new rituals?
Online living memorials exist on facebook pages, web sites, wikipedia entries. Quickly receiving visual and audial information across media platforms has changed our perceptions.
Smell and scent play an important part of death rites, memorials, burials and reminiscences of those who have passed.
Spritzing certain scents can bring a person right back in the room.
See Additional Posts
The smell of pine, centuries later click here
and here
Jim Morrison's beautiful poem on connectors/rites click here
Gunther Van Hagens, creator of Body Worlds and the plastination method of preservation has intrigued people around the world. click here
photo: plastinated human body/Body Worlds/San Diego 2009 Patty Mooney
engraving: Calavera Oaxaqueña José Guadalupe Posada circa 1903
