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.

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.

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]

Does it turn blue if you take the white pills?

First thing I thought about when I saw Ann Marinenko's ghost urns was the Android mascot.  No lie.  I think the description on the website I found these on is... strange.  They refer to the urns as "timeless like a pall," but I bet if you gave one of these to anyone who has attended their fair share of funerals they would disagree.

I will give them that they're whimsical and cute, if a bit unsettling.  Not a bad choice if they get off the ground.

Jack Bell gallery showcases awesome caskets...

I've showcased urns here before, but I don't think until now I've showcased caskets.

And this guy makes some awesome caskets, shaped like things like cars and airplanes and animals and... is that a cacao pod?  I don't know, I just know that it's made of awesome.  His name is Paa Joe.

Article can be found at Gawker which also has a link to the exhibition itself.

Death: Before and After

German photographers Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta took several photographs and interviews of people who were in their last few days of life.  These are some photographs of those people before death and after death.  The difference is so striking... that spark of life is far more than just animation.

Life Before Death, from Guardian.co.uk

Don't you work at a morgue?

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Awesome comic book about human decomposition.

I found this gem on BoingBoing from about a half hour ago.  There's an artist named Ariyana Suvarnasuddhi who has drawn a comic called "Stages of Human Decomposition" which uses a sushi bar to illustrate the stages of... well, human decomposition.  It's delightful!