Want your love of music to live on past the grave? If donating to a local music program or other charity doesn't do it for you, there's an alternative. Your cremated ashes can be pressed into 1-30 vinyl records containing the audio of your choice, including your rant about how Nickelback really is a great band.
Is pressing the ashes of the dead onto records an odd novelty or tender remembrance?
When it first made headlines in 2010, Jason Leach’s UK-based company And Vinyly—which presses the ashes of the deceased into vinyl records for loved ones wishing to hold onto their memory—appeared to be something of a macabre novelty. But there might be more to preserving the departed (quite literally) on records than first meets the eye—and ear.
“Hearing Madge" explores how Leach’s venture was given new meaning when he was approached by a man looking to save his mother’s recollections that he had recorded shortly before her death. Surprisingly touching, Andrea Lewis’s short documentary is both a profile of an unusual business and a thought-provoking contemplation of the ways we chose to remember the dead.
Doing this isn't cheap. The basic package is about $3,750 USD and gets you 30 copies of the memorial record, each of which contains some of the provided ashes.
Is pressing the ashes of the dead onto records an odd novelty or tender remembrance?
When it first made headlines in 2010, Jason Leach’s UK-based company And Vinyly—which presses the ashes of the deceased into vinyl records for loved ones wishing to hold onto their memory—appeared to be something of a macabre novelty. But there might be more to preserving the departed (quite literally) on records than first meets the eye—and ear.
“Hearing Madge" explores how Leach’s venture was given new meaning when he was approached by a man looking to save his mother’s recollections that he had recorded shortly before her death. Surprisingly touching, Andrea Lewis’s short documentary is both a profile of an unusual business and a thought-provoking contemplation of the ways we chose to remember the dead.
Doing this isn't cheap. The basic package is about $3,750 USD and gets you 30 copies of the memorial record, each of which contains some of the provided ashes.
