Category: memories

Princess Diana’s Funeral, Played and Replayed

19 December 2023
death, mortality, the deadfilmfuneral, commemorationfunerals, cemeteriesmedia, technologymemoriesmetaphor, symbolpassageperformance, play, entertainmentpolitics
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The year 2023 is about to turn into 2024. The Crown, a televisions series treatment of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, is currently playing on Netflix. The series includes two funerals, one for Princess Diana, the other for her deceased lover, Dodi Fayed. The funerals occur in season 6, episode 4. The current media…

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How to keep your dead family photographically alive?

9 October 2017
art & imagedeath, mortality, the deadmemoriesphotography

Susan talks about downsizing. I’m not ready for such a move even though people our age are doing it. For one thing, it would cost us more, not less, to move into a condo. For another, I am still capable of maintaining the house, so enjoy it. In a condo I’d have fewer reasons to…

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