May 30, 2004

Voice Mail Messages as a Living Memorial

Dmae's mother died two years ago. Every 100 days, Dmae re-saves voice mail messages from her mother as sort of a living memorial. Yesterday, she told NPR's Day to Day why. You can hear Dmae's story here .

Last week, I was talking to a new friend about how important it was to record people's voices. She agreed. "My husband has saved a message from his father saying how happy he was and how he loved his son for over 2 years.
We listen to it whenever we play back our messages. He has no other recordings of his father's voice."

Posted by Jill Fallon at May 30, 2004 7:35 PM | Permalink