A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? The world’s biggest graveyard.

SHOW NOTESGet in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.comhttp://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast Audio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY.
 
The Valley of Peace / wadi es salaamhttps://widerimage.reuters.com/story/iraqs-peace-valley-the-worlds-largest-cemetery 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziGiFiuseE Inside the Tech Industry’s Obsession With Immortality:https://newrepublic.com/article/140260/human 
 
John Berlin’s viral plea for his dead son’s “look-back” video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPT28MGhprY  2014 and 2019 facebook announcements about deceased user policy:http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/02/remembering-our-loved-ones/  https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/updates-to-memorialization/ Phoebe Judge’s “This Is Love” episode about Bina 48: 
https://thisislovepodcast.com/how-to-live-forever/ 
 
ICOM code of ethics:https://icom.museum/en/activities/standards-guidelines/code-of-ethics/ 
 
I wanted to loop in a story about selfies at funerals, but it was going to take too long and detracted from where I eventually settled on going with the Terasem tangent. You should read this paper; it’s just a couple pages and it’s very interesting:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283318951_Selfies_Selfies_at_Funerals_Mourning_and_Presencing_on_Social_Media_Platforms “Many commentators on ‘selfies at funerals’  were quick to criticize the character of the people involved for being  narcissistic and lacking proper respect and tended to focus on the problematic  character of ‘today’s youth’; an age-old conundrum. However, for others who attempted to understand rather than dismiss this practice, there was recognition that social media such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are  integrated into many people’s everyday lives and are thus ‘natural’ avenues for personal expressions of grief. Given the waning of institutionalized mourning rituals in contemporary western societies (Margry  & Sánchez-Carretero 2011; Wouters 2002), disentangling the vitriol from the vernacular in expressions of digital culture are needed if we are to adequately comprehend how funeral rituals are being remediated.”Judge for yourself here:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/selfies-at-funerals/280972/ 
And finally, take the Order of the Good Death’s ‘Death Positive pledge’ today:
http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/death-positive