Mushroom Burial Suit

Jae Rhim Lee explains her suit seeded with mushrooms that eat the toxic byproducts of burial. It's an art piece, but it's still pretty cool!

From TED.com.

Cool Star Wars headstone...

Click to see, found on Reddit.

Liquify your dead body.

Liquify your dead body... for the Earth.

I'm in class so I don't have much to say about it right now, just... wow.

Clown Funeral

This is old news, very old news, but I found it while I was looking at something else and it's new news to me, so you get it anyway:

This is the funeral of Norman Thompson, a.k.a. "Boppo," who was a member of a clown troupe which visited children in hospital burn units.  He was honored with a clown funeral.

From Quigley's Cabinet.

Funeral Song

Sorry for how long I've been gone, I work at a summer camp and I don't have reliable Internet access.

I did, however, find an awesome song about funerals:

Stride gum... lasts a ridiculously long time.

Really?

Stride "Urn" TV Commercial from Tom Christmann on Vimeo.

The Euthanasia Coaster

Found this via The Daily What, a concept design by PhD candidate Julijonas Urbonas.  It's a roller coaster which is designed to kill the person riding it in a comfortable and euphoric manner.  A "Euthanasia Coaster."

Patrick Stewart on Assisted Suicide

I found this personally topical because I'd just seen the movie "You Don't Know Jack" which told the story of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, also known as "Dr. Death" who was the main player in an involved fight for the acceptance of physician assisted suicide here in the States.

Now Sir Patrick Stewart of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame has come forward in support of physician assisted suicide through the organization Dignity in Dying, a British-based group.

As the blogger at Stuff Dead People Like, I strongly believe that people deserve choices regarding their own deaths, even if others disagree.  If you're interested in some non-British groups for the same purpose, Compassion & Choices is based in Denver, CO and you can also check out the World Federation of Right to Die Societies.

Compton funeral home drive-thru

There's this funeral home that was just highlighted in which rather than go inside the funeral home you drive or walk alongside it and the remains are showcased behind a window.  It's a drive-thru wake, and after the initial "Seriously?!" wore off all I can say is, well, interesting!


From the Los Angeles Times.

QR Code Headstones in Japan

Via JapanTrends.

In the future this is the sort of thing that will make archaeologists go "WTF?"

My Third Cousin's Parents

This is a little late, but after I was showing Stuff Dead People Like to my aunt and my third cousin, the latter pulled up a picture and said "meet my parents!"  I asked for permission to post it here, so here we go:

These are the cremains of his parents who apparently were dressed up for a costume party.

Hot Rod Caskets!

Didn't I just say like four posts ago I never get to talk about caskets?  And here, second post in one day having to do with caskets.

Not the first car related casket I've shown here, but it is pretty sweet:

Apparently if you want to buy it long before you actually have to use it, it can be converted into an ice chest by adding a different liner.  Gives a new meaning to the expression "iced."

Via Neatorama.

Lee Harvey Oswald's Casket Sold

For $87,469.  Apparently he was buried in this, and then when his body was exhumed his family had his casket swapped out for a different one, and so the funeral home sold it.  Check it out:

Lee Harvey Oswald's Casket

Via Art Daily.

Computer Geek Gravestone

This is the head stone of Hu Chuang, who died at 26 and whose headstone is a badass piece of computer geekery:

[Via: Neatorama]

The Soapman!

[Im Cr: David Hunt/Smithsonian]

I know it's old news, but I've never actually seen the picture before... this is the Soap Man, whose body was found after being entirely saponified, or literally turned into soap.