Posts tagged death

Posted 6 months ago

Short URL

Spanish designer Martin Azua has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition.

His Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and inside it contains the seed of a tree. Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow. You even have the choice to pick the type of plant you would like to become, depending on what kind of planting space you prefer.

Posted 2 years ago

Short URL
Kiss of Death Collage “The Kiss of Death” (El Beso de la Muerte) is undoubtedly the most famous and outstanding composition in the Cementiri del’Est. A winged skeleton representing Death, in an almost erotic manner, kisses the forehead of a young man who collapses. In 1930 the Llaudet family lost one of their young sons and wanted to make a sculpture for his grave representing the lines from Cinto Verdaguer’s epitaph: But his young heart can’t carry on; in his veins, blood stops and freezes and the lost strength to faith holds on feeling the kiss of death fall upon. (via xixerone)

Kiss of Death Collage

“The Kiss of Death” (El Beso de la Muerte) is undoubtedly the most famous and outstanding composition in the Cementiri del’Est. A winged skeleton representing Death, in an almost erotic manner, kisses the forehead of a young man who collapses.

In 1930 the Llaudet family lost one of their young sons and wanted to make a sculpture for his grave representing the lines from Cinto Verdaguer’s epitaph:


But his young heart can’t carry on;
in his veins, blood stops and freezes
and the lost strength to faith holds on
feeling the kiss of death fall upon.

(via xixerone)

Posted 2 years ago
via theduty

Short URL
Modern American Gothic. (via theduty)

Modern American Gothic.

(via theduty)

Posted 2 years ago

Short URL
Is this haunting picture proof that chimps really DO grieve? United in what appears to be deep and profound grief, a phalanx of more than a dozen chimpanzees stood in silence watching from behind the wire of their enclosure as the body of one of their own was wheeled past. This extraordinary scene took place recently at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon, West Africa. When a chimp called Dorothy, who was in her late 40s, died of heart failure, her fellow apes seemed to be stricken by sorrow. As they wrapped their arms around each other in a gesture of solidarity, Dorothy’s female keeper gently settled her into the wheelbarrow which carried her to her final resting place - not before giving this much-loved inhabitant of the centre a final affectionate stroke on the forehead.

Is this haunting picture proof that chimps really DO grieve?

United in what appears to be deep and profound grief, a phalanx of more than a dozen chimpanzees stood in silence watching from behind the wire of their enclosure as the body of one of their own was wheeled past.

This extraordinary scene took place recently at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon, West Africa.

When a chimp called Dorothy, who was in her late 40s, died of heart failure, her fellow apes seemed to be stricken by sorrow.

As they wrapped their arms around each other in a gesture of solidarity, Dorothy’s female keeper gently settled her into the wheelbarrow which carried her to her final resting place - not before giving this much-loved inhabitant of the centre a final affectionate stroke on the forehead.