Possible Opportunities

We listed some possible opportunities that we can approach..

and these lists are to be continued..!!

A. will kit
People's will changes every minutes and every seconds. This will kit idea is to put whatever changes they make into very interactive forms. Rather than boring wills thats done in writings, this will kit will be experimental in its presentation and the way people approach it. This is the collection of different ideas for other people to get from the deceased.

B. funeral design
People have certain ways that they want to be remembered. The funeral is the moment to mark your death. Then why can't it represent you more personally in the way you want? This is the opportunity for people to customize and personalize their own funeral with their own need and wants.

C. death note
People have shortcoming of their own. These defects might make people to feel that they have too much negatives in their personalities. This feeling makes people to be less proud of themselves. Death note is the concept of losing the defects of their personalities. It has the potential of people listing the defects of their own to erase them off visually through the design solution of our own. Then it helps people to self-construct their personalities to be a better person than the past.

D. history scrap book

E. self tool kit
This is the idea of making self representing tool kit for other people. It has the idea of making personal activity that represent their own life history for others to experience and learn about the person. It has the opportunity of both the individual and his/her loved ones to be connected through the tool kit.

F. board game
People get engaged closely when they play games such as board game. It requires people's close attention to the game rules and how they play. This is great concept for people to get engaged with the board game about the life of deceased and learn about him/her.

G. interactive diary
This is not a simple diary, but it will be very interactive. For example, it could have some kind of pop-up aspect to the diary that people can mess around. Not simply writing, it might require cutting and pasting or even scraping and all sorts. This will engage people to focus on the production of diary and think deeply into their daily activities.

H. family story book
Every individual is important in their family. Therefore, it is important that the one to be remembered, respected, and kept in the family history. This is the idea of collecting every family members profile and their life stories to make their own family story book. Then this book can be passed on to generation to generations and eventually become the family treasure. It is like a family biography book.

I. personal comic strip
By simply listing down memorable events in the life and making it into a story, it can be visually told through comic strip. These comic strips eventually become one final book that anyone can keep.

J. sharing life experience forums
Either through online or offline, people can share their own life experience with others and scrap other people's experience to bookmark interesting stories or get inspired by it. This has the potential in sharing, which helps people to create the sense of community to help each other to advice about the life and how do deal with the experiences of dealing with the death.

K. personal brand making
Every individual has different merits of their own. It a person dies, these merits won't be able to light the world as they probably wanted. This idea is to help people making thier merits into some sort of brand and keep it forever, which can help others to get inspired or get helped.

L. tangible memories
Memories are one of the most valuable ability of the human beings. But these memories cannot be directly be kept as a tangible object. We see a great oppotunity in transforming memories into tangible objects of their own, which represents the person itself.

M. timeline
Every individual has a right to be remembered. Not only the famous celebrities, but ordinary people have the right to be remembered and respected. This will be the interactive timeline that has opportunity of being projected anywhere that people want. This is to think back to people's past life and re-evaluating their lifestyles and change their believes.

N. wall paper
Not only visually pleasing, some wall papers have its own stories presented inside. People can self express their life stories to be transformed into wall paper patterns. This wall papers will have story telling aspects and personal expressions combined together. This is visual way of sharing life experiences and stories with others.

O. time capsule
Simple idea of putting memorable objects into the time capsule to be presented later in the future. It will help people to bring out the sleeping memories from the far past to close past. It can also capture the possible imaginary future life stories.

P. family map

Some directions~~

OMG..
Death has too much possible directions that we could take on.
Death is INFINITE subject to talk about. OTL..

Anyways, here are some possible directions for this project.

-capturing the moment of sharing memories of the deceased
-sharing the life experiences and create some kind of tangible object out of it
-thinking back to their past life, change the lifestyle
-self-construct their personalities, killing off the negative aspects of them(possibly campaign?)
-building self identity of their own
-future life goals
-re-evaluating life/self-managing
-how to remember the deceased
-family memory collecting
-life story telling
-visualizing their experiences
-knowledge gathering
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etc...

Visual research

Death has dual meanings. (light and dark)

Are we prepared for the death?

We prepare for old age, but we don't prepare for death

"Old people seem determined to deny the possibility of death until the very last gasp. The young don't think about it at all. As a result we are panicked and unprepared when our loved ones die." There is truth in this. We spend a lot of time preparing for old age - pensions, retirement homes, medication - but that is not preparing for death. That is preparing for NOT dying. If we were all ready for death, undertakers would not make their great profits. If we were all ready for death, we would all have made wills. If we were all ready for death, we wouldn't go around saying: "Oh, if only I had talked more to my father/ mother/ gran before she died and asked her about the family..." If we were all ready for death, we would have our dying words worked out in advance.

Full version of the article:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n25370439


To think of and prepare for death is not surrender, but victory over fear

If you are like most, you may be a bit squeamish when it comes to the subject of death. Most likely, it is something you would rather not think about. However, blocking the thought of death from one's mind is a mistake. Those who choose to suppress thoughts of death can never realize their full potential. For it is only when we admit that death is an arrow in flight coming our way that we are motivated to act now. When we pretend to ourselves that death couldn't possibly come today, but must be lurking at a distant point in the future, we falsely believe there is no need to act immediately. Who do you suppose are the great achievers: those who are ever aware of the nearness of death or those with their heads in the sand?

Because of death, life has value. When you realize that those you love can be taken from you at any moment, you cherish them all the more. It is death that makes life such a valuable gift. When one offers their own life to protect their country or family, there's no greater gift. Those who work as volunteers, helping others, are offering part of their lives. And because life is limited, the time they spend serving others is a precious gift.

Full version of the article:
http://www.personal-development.com/chuck/death.htm

Some thoughts...

Through the observations, we gathered some informations on how people think about death.

Okay, people do think about death, whether frequently or rarely.
They do understand that someday we all die and that is the fact of human life.
but not a lot of people know how to deal with the subject of death.

They UNDERSTAND that we die someday, but they don't PREPARE for the upcoming issues about death.
Therefore, people panic when it comes to their own or their loved ones death because they almost never thought that they would face the death so soon.

We figured this is a problem that people have in common.
People don't think that death might come in close future, which might be tomorrow.
They think it will happen in far future that they will have some time/chances to get prepared for it.

NONONONO.
It's wrong.

No one knows what is going to happen tomorrow!!

"Live everyday as if it was your last"

So let's see what other people think about this issue.

What is the colour of death?

What is the colour of death?

A:
well it has no color indeed. all colors are associated with death. Whether white, red, blue, yellow silk or black. But BLACK has over the years been more associated to death in a negative way.

1) It is the only color you can see before death comes--all goes dark.
2) Black as dirty is the color that would become of whatever a dead man wears. t simply goes dirty with the soil...
3)In certain funerals black was used as clothes for the death to cover whatever shouldn't be seen or pleasing to the eyes at death;
4) it signifies a loss of someone dear. In some funerals the people of the victim's family wear black in mourning signifying a loss
5) It has been a symbol of darkness used on earthly misfortunes and the greatest misfortune is death
6) It a biblical symbol of sin and a sinner stands dead before God
7) certain Satan the author of death uses that color often to symbolize his mission-to kill.


B:
the color symbolism of death are black and white.black => sadness, grieve, etcwhite => hoping that the soul will go to heaven


C:
Death has not sign You can see more sick people stay a live and you can see fine people die without reason And you have to know that every think in this world has time limited like stop-watch if your time finished you will die anyway you are anyhow you are

D:
No one has seen the colour of death. When we die our eyesbecome closed so when we dont see any thing its dark. Dark is black. So death is black.

Colour of Death

Some tests to find out your colour of death.. FOR FUN!!


What colour of death is yours?

http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/mindcrasher/what-colour-of-death-is-yours/

Which colour of death is yours?

http://www.quizilla.com/quizzes/101766/which-colour-of-death-is-yours

ENJOY! ^.^;;

Quotations

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." - Mark Twain

"No one can confidently say that he will be living tomorrow." - Euripides

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins

"Our birth is nothing but our death begun." - Edward Young Night

"Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor." - Homer Iliad

"The goal of all life is death." - Sigmund Freud

5 steps

When dealing with the death of a loved one.

Dealing with the death of a friend, family member or loved one can be very tough. Especially when you are really close to the person who is deceased but how do you over come that sadness of losing someone you love and care about? In Amanda Mainville's article, there are different stages that you go through when dealing with the death of a loved one.

Denial -> Anger -> Bargain -> Depression -> Acceptance


Coping with Death: What to Expect by Amanda Mainville

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/196560/coping_with_death_what_to_expect_.html?cat=7

Opening Conversations

How We Think (Or Don't Think) About Death
By Karen M. Stensrud

There's good reason most of us avoid talking about dying, often until death is staring us in the face.

It's scary: the end of life, goodbyes we may not want to say, a mysterious event from which no one can return to tell us what it's like.

"Even as a society, we won't talk about dying," acknowledges Wendy Hournbuckle, hospice coordinator at Jamestown Hospital. "We say people 'pass on,' they 'go to the great beyond' -- but they don't 'die.' "

That kind of cultural denial may make it even more difficult for people to initiate important conversations about end-of-life choices with family members, physicians, clergy and others.

Thought about death

1. What do you think about death

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071022192946AACZRl0

2. The question is
"How often do you think about death and dying?"
"Do you ever think about death?"

http://www.yelp.com/topic/los-angeles-how-often-do-you-think-about-death-and-dying
http://help.com/post/168718-i-think-about-death-a-lot-these-day
http://www.starpulse.com/forum/index.php?topic=11783.msg233187;topicseen

Brainstorming

Brainstorming of Death

Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

http://www.deathreference.com/

DEATH definition

ETYMOLOGY of death

DEATH : "dauthaz"

dau = "die" + thaz = "act, process, condition"


DEATH

1. a) a permanent cessation of all vital functions : the end of life
b) an instance of dying
c) the time when something ends

2. a) the cause of occasion of loss of life
b) a cause of ruin

3. capitalized : the destroyer of life represented ususally as a skeleton with a sulthe

4. the state of being dead

5. a) the passing or destruction of somethin inanimate
b) extinction

6. destruction

Death Clock

Go and check your Death Clock

www.deathclock.com

It tells you when you are suppose to die!!
(Of course its not real! Plz do this just for FUN;; Don't take it serious:))

DEATH

What is death?

Death is a mysterious thing.

As we were doing the research on death, we got lost in every seconds since the topic of death was so broad and general. It deferred in every cultures and religions according to their beliefs. Then we figured that the confusion came from people's assumptions about death.

No one ever experienced death since no one can return from death to tell us what it's like. All we do is making an assumption of what it would be like or how it is going to be. Therefore there is no right or wrong answers to it. These assumptions became the general explanations of death and people are keep building on it.


The problem:

People don't realize how much the death influence their lives and the affective changes it brings. Often people are unprepared when it comes to either their own or their loved ones death. They forget the fact that we eventually face the death, whether in close or far future.


People are often aware of death whether they experienced or not of losing their loved ones. They think about it deep inside, knowing that someday we all will die. But people avoid talking about dying until death face up to reality, not realizing the affective influences that death can bring to our lives.
People assume the death as the far future event of their lives. But the reality is not. No one knows when the death will come. Not knowing what the death really is(people only assume), they are not prepared when the time comes to deal with the death of either their own or their loved ones'. Death still is the part of the life; but people don't plan ahead for experiences of facing death, just like how they plan for their lifestyles.


Opportunities:

By engaging people to understand the influences that death can affect our lives, our project has the potential to change people's perception on death and their way of dealing with it