{"id":76408,"date":"2018-01-12T13:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-death-got-cool\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T07:05:01","slug":"how-death-got-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-death-got-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"How death got cool"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe latest death trend is a cross between hygge and Marie Kondo: a sign that dying well has become a defining obsession of our time. By Marisa MeltzerLast spring, at Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn, where the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is buried, another conceptual artist, Sophie Calle, launched an installation called Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery. For the next 25 years, anyone passing by will be able to write down their most intimate secrets and bury them in a grave designed by the artist. The cemetery also hosts moonlit tours, cocktail parties, dance performances, and even yoga classes.Death is hot right now, and upbeat gatherings in cemeteries are just a small part of the trend. One of the chief desires of our time is to turn everything we touch into a reflection of who we are, how we live and how we want others to view us \u2013 and death is no exception. Once merely the inevitable, death has become a new bourgeois rite of passage that, much like weddings or births, must now be minutely planned and personalised. Not since the Victorian era\u2019s fetishisation of death, with its all-black attire, elaborate mourning jewellery and seances, has death been so appealingly packaged. Every death must be in some way special and on-trend. Finally, the hipster can die as he lived. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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