Saturday, December 22, 2012

Improbable Monument: Pyramidal-Shaped Collective Cremation Burial Site_Keynote Slides

PROPOSAL
To build an improbable monument, and introduce a new form of burial and commemoration of life for humans, which acknowledges our past, while maintaining a rational view of necessary changes in burial processes for the future.  

A tall, clear, pyramidal-shaped structure to fill with ashes; 

A "Collective crematorium".

Will include a doorway to step inside, glass walls, and a small opening at top that plummets down to let light in.

Reminiscent of Egyptian pyramids and Aztec temples.

Loved ones can include small momentos in with ashes (colored glass bottles, messages, shells, seeing eye glasses..), which may be seen due to clear outer shell and natural light source.
 
BUILDING IT
•Materials:  Glass, symbolic of physical body as dust/ transient.  Possible physical/human glue to bond glass together

***HUMAN ADHESIVE POSSIBILITES
http://tisseel.com/us/index.html

http://articles.philly.com/1987-03-19/news/26223354_1_glue-fibrinogen-middle-ear

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2440358

•Brick:  Under the earth, to support glass structure, create catacombs, various chambers
 
FORMS OF BURIAL

Norse- ship burial

Barrows- circular mounds of earth and stone
Burial at sea
ALTERNATIVE BURIAL
•Death of Animals
•Waste disposal
•Maintaining Dignity and Respect
•Tissue Digestion aka Water Reduction
•Human Compost Movement
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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