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  • September 5, 2010

    If Cremated Human Remains Can’t Go In It Then You Don’t Need It

    Company Presses Your Ashes Into Vinyl When You Die Olivia Solon, Wired (August 27, 2010) Many many people saw this Wired article on human cremains…

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  • May 24, 2010

    Inventing the Future of Death

    Recent design school graduate Jake Shapiro of New York shared his thesis project with us: “The Future of Death” examines how our internet and social…

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  • April 27, 2010

    Man Dying of Cancer Sells Ad Space on Urn

    Springfield Man Selling Ad Space on His Urn Laura Rillos, KVAL News I have read many, many ridiculous death and dying stories over the years…

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  • October 29, 2009

    Wal-Mart: Save Money. Live Better. Die Cheap(ly).

    Wal-Mart Offering Low-Cost Caskets, Urns On Its Website Emily Fredrix, Associated Press (October 28, 2009) It’s all over the death-dar: following Costco’s lead, Wal-Mart now…

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  • October 15, 2009

    Japan Goes… Library Tech? with Urn Storage and Retrieval

    Japan’s New Hi-Tech ‘Graveyards’ Jason Rhodes, Reuters (October 13, 2009) via Treehugger, “Japan’s High Tech Graveyard Solution as Burial Space Grows Scarce” (Jaymi Heimbuch, October…

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  • September 30, 2009

    Death: The Final Frontier

    A Geek Funeral kdawson, Slashdot.org (September 29, 2009) While the obsessively geekerrific can always go for the deluxe Star Trek casket or urn, I rather…

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  • July 28, 2009

    Urn Design Comes to a Head

    Death masks are so eighteenth century. Cremation Solutions – purveyor of creative cremains transformations—offer urns that look like the noggin of the dearly departed, or…

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