Eternity Beckons

Eternity Beckons

First posted May 17, More stories from Western Australia. If you have inside knowledge of a topic in the news, contact the ABC. ABC teams share the story behind the story and insights into the making of digital, TV and radio content. Read about our editorial guiding principles and the enforceable standard our journalists follow.

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Got a news tip? Editorial Policies Read about our editorial guiding principles and the enforceable standard our journalists follow. NT's water a pipe dream Northern Australia gets monsoonal rains each year, but just how plausible is the idea of pumping its water to Queensland, NSW, and Western Australia? Game of Thrones characters meet a bloody and brutal end Researchers study the mortality and survival rate of key characters in the hit TV series Game of Thrones.

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Death is no longer the fusty business it once was: Can't make it to a faraway funeral? A growing number of undertakers will let you take part via the web, with mourners hooking up to join the ceremony via a secure Internet connection.

For the truly high-tech touch, several undertaking firms have started embedding bar codes at grave sites, to be scanned with a smartphone to call up an online biography complete with pictures, videos or tributes to the deceased. Seattle-based Quiring Monuments began offering the QR, or Quick Response codes—commonly used in ad campaigns—last year, and French start-up "Memory History" and undertaker Chester Pearce from England followed suit this year.

Far-flung families wanting to post condolences, light a digital candle, share photos or memories, can choose from dozens of online memorial sites, a well-established US phenomenon that has newly caught on in Europe too. Increasingly part of the Facebook generation, the fast-growing ranks of web-literate seniors are a key reason for the shift of memorial services online.

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Facebook itself offers the option of turning a personal page into a virtual memorial by "freezing" the profile after its owner dies, but leaving it open to tributes. One example of this is the French foruforever. As members of the baby-boomer generation take their final bow—and the place of religion declines in the West—funeral ceremonies are also changing drastically, with a large place opening up for music and humour.

With cremation on the rise in the West, accounting for 30 percent of funerals in France, and more than 70 percent in Britain—among the highest shares in Europe—firms are also tapping into the need for modern types of physical memorial. Urnea, a young firm set up in the Pyrenees by two French artists, Cyril Amouroux and Benoit Alcouffe, dreamed up designer urns that can be stacked into a column, for members of a same family for instance.

The start-up company Funeralconcept, from Vendee in western France, offers tomb plates in laser-sculpted steel that can be carved into the shape of a musical instrument, or painted with a glorious sunset. Among the most recent, a colourful monument to the memory of the late Serge Danot, creator of the cult children's television classic "The Magic Roundabout", who died in Funeral directors need to be aware of the needs of non-religious people. Steve Jobs was honored online and off Wednesday as tributes poured into a memorial website set up by Apple and the company's shops closed temporarily for workers to mourn his loss.