Digmex Research Network

27/06/2018

On the wall was a quote from Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, who died in 2011: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”

Death cafes, death doulas, “Ask a Mortician,” DeathLab — once the province of goth subculture, death is having a moment in the sun.

22/01/2018

The app created for the purpose of freeing people from digital influence: Die With Me.

It can only be used when you have less than 5% battery: "It allows you to join a chatroom, and say goodbye to another stranger having also less than 5% battery, and die together on your way to offline peace".

Die together in a chatroom on your way to offline peace. By Dries Depoorter & David Surprenant

06/12/2017

Philip Nitschke, whom Newsweek identifies as the "Elon Musk of assisted suicide,” advocates for euthanasia to be a legal option for anyone over 70. A new “suicide machine” allows people to exit life in an orderly, peaceful manner.

The Sarco is a state-of-the-art death machine. In a world filled with chaos, a new “suicide machine” allows people to exit life in an orderly, peaceful manner. The Sarco is a technological marvel, resembling some kind of futuristic sleeping chamber, that aids in voluntary assisted dying. Austral...

30/10/2017

started with a welcoming word by Amanda Lagerkvist!

20/07/2017

"As part of a project called "Romancing the Gibbet", the University of the West of England has funded a series of audioguides that play excerpts of 250-year-old ballads and court proceedings as listeners pass the scenes of notorious crimes."

Want to find your nearest rotting human carcass, strung up for public display?

31/05/2017

A robot in Germany is raising its metal arms above worshipers' heads, but human priests shouldn't worry about their jobs just yet.

30/05/2017

An open letter about social media's impact on "the hierarchy of grief".

There is nothing more painful than the death of a loved one. Aside from sadness...Read More »

29/05/2017

  Get ready to explore your mortality through the games, movies, books and shows our contributors are currently consuming. Find new things to read, watch, or play – on your own, or…

16/05/2017

"The fast food giant's latest British advert features a boy who struggles to find something in common with his dead father, until it is revealed they shared the same favourite menu item."

The restaurant chain's latest TV campaign has been criticised for exploiting childhood bereavement.

12/05/2017

"Crematoria are being fitted with equipment that can live-stream the send off. So you don’t even have to get out of bed to say goodbye to your gran."

There is something deeply emotionally brittle and infantile about the refusal to allow ourselves to be overcome with grief

It’s time to put the fun back into funeral. Yes, it’s going to be the party of your life. After all, you only die once. It’s your special day. Why not make it a themed…

20/04/2017

Our cemeteries are full, so how about becoming fuel (to heat a swimming pool) or having an augmented reality memorial?