http://www.subdogmatic.com/Afterlife-Project-2000
The grieving process can be determined by the concept of afterlife and this afterlife project examines increasing faith in technology. The project offers a technological mediated service providing a tangible expression of afterlife for those who have become spiritually disconnected, or require hard evidence of some form of life after death.
Usually after death, the human body would be assimilated back into this natural system, the afterlife device intervenes during this process to harness the chemical potential and convert into usable electrical energy via a microbial fuel cell. A device that uses an electrochemical reaction to generate electricity from organic matter, which is then contained within a familiar dry cell battery.
This can be interpreted as a form of regeneration especially in the context of batteries, which are often described in terms of life, extra life and now afterlife.
This electronic state as life after death is tangible proof of life after biological expiry.
The afterlife battery can be placed in a range of contemporary objects suiting the particular needs of the individual.
Simon Warne. (Afterlife proposal).
I have thought long and hard where my battery would go. I tried to resist the obvious places to place myself but in the end I gave up…so I want to be put in a torch. I have always loved a torch, as a child and an adult, they always provide a special light, always dramatic or secret. The idea of being useful during a power cut, or camping, or looking for stuff in the shed, really appeals to me. It would be my kids that will receive the torch and having spoken to them about what would be written on the battery, they think “SHINE ON DAD” should be my hopelessly sentimental epitaph.
The inevitability that one day we will be dis-arranged is daunting but through this
project we offer a memorial and an option.
Dont Be Scared To Grieve 