From dust to vinyl: how will you be remembered?

There's always someone looking to prey upon the emotionally vulnerable and relieve them of their cash. I personally find this type of thing totally repugnant and exploitative. Wouldn't be allowed in my Utopian dictatorship!!

When my wife died last year, there was a leaflet in the undertakers for similar things, I don't remember albums, but paperweights and jewellery were on offer. It struck me as macabre personally, but if it gives any bereaved people comfort then I'm OK with it.

Simple: I'll be remembered by my contribution to scientific progress - that's enough for me.

Timmo1341 posted:

There's always someone looking to prey upon the emotionally vulnerable and relieve them of their cash. I personally find this type of thing totally repugnant and exploitative. Wouldn't be allowed in my Utopian dictatorship!!

Or even to pray upon (for) the emotionally vulnerable; equally as bad.

I am looking to be disposed of in an unmarked location and all my possessions destroyed; damned if I want anyone to remember me.

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”  - Woody Allen.

Immortality is the oldest curse in the book:  To leave someone racked by old age and ravaged by disease and yet unable to die.

Everyone needs to know what he or she does, but I think those kind of things are kind of macabre. I would like to be remembered - but without children the remembrance will be rather short of nature. 

I always ask myself if there is something more. It would be so strange to live and die, for what purpose.....

Perhaps we will all get our statement with an limitless library of music in another live :-)

Life is a sexually transmitted fatal condition.

Huge posted:

Immortality is the oldest curse in the book:  To leave someone racked by old age and ravaged by disease and yet unable to die.

And the idea of being free of death while retaining vigour is the oldest trope in literature.

Literally - it's one of the central themes of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Personally, I'm with Woody Allen.

Does ash, human or other, have sonic benefits? I assume the opposite, but maybe it imparts a ghostly presence to the music...

From a different angle, the vinyl embalmment idea is a bit hollow if those intended to use it for memorial purposes go over to digital. What would be the digital equivalent? Easy with CD, as they similarly could contain ash within the plastic matrix, but for streamers?

One has to wonder about surface noise on Vinyl!

A new kind of seance?

Ravenswood10 posted:

One has to wonder about surface noise on Vinyl!

Frm the BBC article in the OP, the guy who sells these stated "There will, of course, be some extra pops and crackles resulting from the inclusion of ashes - but we like these, as this is you."

Obviously adding to the organic experience!

With a little careful mixing the dead can now be Grateful.