Video Tombstones 426
Rio writes "A new company plans to unveil new high-tech tombstones with embedded flat screen monitors that would allow visitors to play memorial videos of the deceased. Joe Joachim, who says he wants to be the Walt Disney of the funeral business, plans to show the Vidstone this year at the annual funeral directors convention. The solar-powered Vidstone will play a video of the person's life at the touch of a button."
advertising (Score:2, Insightful)
I want an old-school tombstone (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Free LCDs! (Score:2, Insightful)
Lately there has been a surge of "In Memory of" decals on the back windows of cars around here. To me (and only me apperently) this beggs the question what's the memorial? The car? I don't want to offend anyone, but it sure seems like a poor (and kind of tacky) choice of a memorial to me, if only because of the fact that a car is so temporary.
But hey if it helps you through the mourning more power to you I guess
Now I have seen everything... (Score:3, Insightful)
Needless to say one should consider the tombstone thefts to get a free LCD display.
Technology belongs to this world not to the "*other*" side IMHO.
this was on CNN.. (Score:3, Insightful)
I, for one, welcome this, because... (Score:2, Insightful)
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R.E.S.P.E.C.T.! (Score:3, Insightful)
While I was in the army many, many moons ago, I pulled funeral detail several times. It was an honor to either bear the pall, or shoot the salute. Although most of the men and woman we buried were in the standard army-issue felt caskets, there was a major we buried in a massive polished oak behemoth, with polished brass hardware and memorial plate.
Strange thing is, that was the one funeral at which I was truly embarrassed. The widow was crying loudly the entire time, things like, "Why, oh why?" and carrying on in all kinds of movie cliches, with literal hand-wringing and whatnot. It felt... well, cliched, somehow staged almost.
I decided then that my death should be a cause for celebration-- not that I'm gone (although for some I'm sure that's cause enough), but that I ever lived in the first place. My wife and I have a pact: if either of us go before the other, we'll have a helluva blow-out party, with friends we love and music we have enjoyed blasting at full volume, and good drink (no cheap beer, damnit), and no tears.
This whole video thing seems like the desperately-crying widow-- artificial and demeaning. Tacky, but not in a good way.
But, the US is kinda tacky, and not in a good way. I guess it's not that out-of-line for a country that loves its reality TV shows.
Re:Offensive? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Any man who wants to be called the Walt Disney of the graveyard seriously needs to go get some medical attention.
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