Six surprising ways to immortalise the dead
After we die, our remains are usually cremated or buried in the ground.
But lately, a surge of new initiatives are offering surprising alternatives to the traditional burial ceremony. Options include printing the departed person’s ashes into a vinyl record, turning them into tattoo ink or sending them to the stratosphere.
The third episode of Metamorphosis looks into six different ways to deal with the dead body, and how the people behind these initiatives came up with them.
Video by Mia Hariz
Animation by Clementina Gades
Sound design by Cagatay Erbasi
Series producer: Anna Bressanin
