August 18, 2005
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Today is the day to televise.
Book By Its Cover Review: Video-Playing Tombstones
It seems that creative ways to be interned are becoming passé. Want your ashes to be shot out of a cannon on your property? Yawn. To be scattered at your favorite baseball field? Ho-hum. To be put into a firework and exploded? My mom wants to do that.
On the one hand, it is still classy to do it the old-fashioned way. While nobody wants to be dumped into an unmarked, communal grave, a simple tombstone or memorial is always appropriate.
But why shouldn't people want to remember their loved ones by video? Cemeteries can be a drag, for sure: they're just so quiet. Wouldn't it be nice, though, to grab your headphones and head out to the memorial grounds to really get to know the deceased?
After all, it doesn't just have to be misty-colored montages. If the deceased really wanted to be popular, they could feature a blooper reel of their life, or maybe even a really good movie (Like "Ghostbusters,") with a commentary by the deceased on why the movie rocks so hard.
The only problem would be, I suppose, that the video
tombstones might distract from the boring, old-fashioned ones. But you
snooze, you lose. For eternity.
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