I-WHAT?
My galpal gets the Wall Street Urinal because she likes to know what the capitalists are thinking. I was looking for the WSJ weekly crossword puzzle in case I finished the NYT Sunday puzzle in a timely fashion or by Tuesday.
A full-page ad with the word “I-Tomb” caught my eye.
The “I” had roots or cracks or varicose veins growing down.
The image was a simple elegant upholstered chair, with a white coffee cup on the chair arm, an opened book on the seat, before a window of hazy white light.
The text above the fold reads: “Build your Immortality. Life is worth it.” Below the fold in a smaller font: “everyone needs an I-Tomb.”
And then:
Build your immortality.
Say what you have to say. Do not leave unprepared. Let www.i-memorial.com become the fully secure guardian of your lifetime, the best place to leave the trace of your passage on Earth.
Join a Human Revolution.
Tell the story of those who have left you. Bring your loved ones back, anytime, anywhere, when you want to cherish and remember with www.i-tomb.net, The World Virtual Cemetery.
I admit I am frequently late to the e-i-e-i-o-party down on the virtual Farmville. I just got Angry Birds. Did I miss I-Womb? Did you know about this? Have you already written your message on I-Tombs where people can visit to “get to know who you were, what your life story was and what your thoughts of the world were”?
Hopefully the visitor is not your long-term i-matey who checks in to see who the hell she was living with all those years.
Check it out. Help me out here. Give me a clue.
September 17, 2011 @ 1:29 am
Funeral monuments date back to a pile of rocks where a caveman or woman was smooshed by a dino foot. Some people want to be remembered and have those who impacted their life remembered by others.
I find myself sharing written stories of my Mom and Dad who have passed with my great nieces and nephews. I want them to understand a bit about th wonderful people who forged their parents and grandparents values in some way.
Also that they stood for something at important points of history and therefore the youngsters and myself stand on their shoulders. I suppose I Tomb can be totally self indulgent or a total expression of guilt about how you treated others while they were with us but I can see the appeal. Last month’s Smithsonian had a wonderful article on the Taj Mahal which you could argue was the ultimate I Tomb of it’s day. I have seen it in person and it rises about the filthy river and debris that surrounds to still proclaim loudly it’s original intent to impress and remind us of someone loved now lost. Not such a bad thing really!
September 30, 2011 @ 5:08 pm
Well, I went to that site, and I dunno whether to trust them or not… same thing with this site (which is kinda along the same lines but in outer space):
WELCOME TO KEO!
go to: http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/default.html
[Per the FAQ @ KEO]: Every human on this planet gets 4 ‘pages’ to write down whatever they wish, in whatever language they use (6000 character limit). These pages, unedited, then go into a passive orbit satellite,
to return to Earth in 50,000 years…
[…again, from the site:]
“Why 50,000 years?
“50,000 years is the mirror date to a milestone in the evolution of our species: the first traces of Art reveal the human capacity for abstract thought and symbolic expression.
“50,000 years is distance in time so compelling that it forces us to shed our worries and daily routine and puts us each on an equal footing, inviting us to bask in our thoughts, intuitions and deepest convictions…
“However 50,000 years only represent 1% of the evolution of the human species that have appeared on Earth some 5 million years ago.
“It is also the concept of time and distance that will give our treasures a genuine archeological value because it is very probable that definitive traces of the activities of the Man of today will be in turn recovered by the Man of tomorrow.”
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Okay, I’m having a vous ja de “Time Machine” kind of feeling… what would I fill 4 pages with for someone to receive in 50,000 years?
What would you?
Jennifer
(the “Tidbits from Texas” one)