Remember Me
On Japan's Wind Telephone, High Tech Tools for Remembrance, Holograms & Cryogenics
Episode 2: Remember Me of my new podcast Death Is Not The End is up now.
Gathering material for making this podcast has been my secret obsession for the past four years and I’m so excited to have it emerging from the darkness and blinking in the sunlight ….Here’s the link to listen.
I’d be ever so grateful for a podcast review if you dig it! It really helps other people find it.
In this episode, I investigate the Japanese wind telephone - dreamed up and created by garden designer Itaru Sasaki as what he calls ‘a sort of a bridge’ that connects the world of the living to the world of the dead:
that are now inspiring new versions across the world:
high tech AI tools for remembrance, such as Hereafter AI … I interview founder James Vlahos about the benefits of preserving our stories….
We explore the ever growing world of holograms …
crazy rumours of life after death…
….and the wild world of cryogenics, or suspension of the human body after legal death … I go deep with Peter Tsolakides, founder of Southern Cryonics, Australia’s first cryogenic facility.
I’d love to hear your ways of communicating with those who are no longer here - and what your thoughts are on living on after death! Has anyone seen Elvis working down at their local cafe?
And if you’re interested in helping me to answer some of life’s strange questions, please head over here and leave me an anonymous 90 second voice message!
I better get back to work on Episode 3, coming Tuesday 26th March with a special conversation with an incredible musician…. subscribe to get it delivered to your inbox.
Thanks for being here, and for listening x
beautiful read Lo ...the air telephone made me smile the most what a simple idea that is so childlike ...thanks so much for taking such a deep dive with all of this highly charged matter love it xxx
Such a thought provoking episode. While I love the concept of the wind telephone, I somehow feel that death and technology don't really go together. I think there's a lack of acceptance of the finality of death except in our memories, and they usually hit us -or rather me as random flashes and dream like flashbacks. Often triggered by something we see, hear or touch...like your magnolias Lo.
Our memories of the departed are fluid and change with time. I'm happy to generate my own and don't want an AI algorithm getting in the mix.