Is This Device That Stores a Heartbeat an Authentic Way to Memorialize Someone?
Platforms like Facebook already act as mediums between the living and deceased.
Platforms like Facebook already act as mediums between the living and deceased.
“Colonial photography perpetually assaulted what became the Nigerian body.”
“I imagined that spending so much time with a dead thing might make death more understandable.”
There’s nothing we do to earn something as unreasonable as moon dust, or death, or a high C you’re just born with.
Inside his sewing box was an old girlfriend’s felt heart, stuck with pins. Throw it out, he says. I don’t.
Who could not be superstitious, sentimental, and impractical around matters of death?
“It wasn’t that I wanted to be thinner; I didn’t want a body at all.”
“As my feelings for R. grow, I find excuses to touch him, to mark him as my own.”