August 20, 2005

The Walt Disney of the Funeral Business.

What do you think of Video playing tombstones?

Thankfully, there are no speakers.  But do you want your tombstone embedded with a flat screen monitor allowing visitors to play a memorial video?

Joe Joachim who wants to be the Walt Disney of the funeral business wants to create the ultimate funeral experience.

Now, I'm all for memorial DVDs, but the funeral is not the right place.  Funerals should be a sad, solemn ritual.  A person has died,  the bell must toll and we  must be sad as we realize once again, that we will die and everyone we know will die. 

DVDs are for the family and for the reception after.  Then we can drink and come back to life again in the company of friends and family and laugh and cry.  That's when we need the catharsis of emotion that a memorial DVD can provide.

I'm not against personalizing funerals or scatterings: 

Home Funerals
Green Burials
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Mulch
Vertical Cemeteries

In fact, I very much like the idea of bringing art and creativity to honor and celebrate the deceased.

Fantasy Coffins
Creative Cremains
Boomer Burials and Scatterings
Translucent Tombstones
Rest in Space

I don't want to see cemeteries with tombstones with empty TV screens.

WE DON"T NEED VIDEO PLAYING TOMBSTONES.

Posted by Jill Fallon at August 20, 2005 7:27 AM | Permalink