Irreversible Cessation Magazine - introduction

As no one knows about death, we create an imaginary world of consumption. Material culture provides us a vision of immortality in which we can free ourselves from the mortality of human flesh. It distances us from our true materiality, feelings and even lived interactions.

We love and fear to lose.

Social understanding of death and the ways of dealing with death have changed dramatically and continually, through perhaps most drastically during the last century.
The idea of death often becomes a taboo and repressed, and consequently mourning becomes a private affair.

Bereavement touches all of us sometime during our lifetime. Although intellectually and rationally we acknowledge death as a natural part of life, when it happens on a personal level, it is difficult for us to accept. Why does all pragmatism and prerequisite knowledge fail to influence our emotional response when the death becomes reality?

Irreversible Cessation Magazine - contents

Article 1-

What is death? Death as unknown, as taboo. Who knows what death is, but this is why we talk about it. In this chapter I will offer a literature review to explain the connection between the fear of death and consumption (the concept of failure) in modern society.

Article 2-

Death across culture and time. Rituals have varied extensively with time and space, and have often varied directly with religious perception. This chapter will be approached from a variety of interpretations, similarities and differences.

Article 3-

When the living have no choice?
Mourning is one of the tradition ‘rites of passage’ through which families can ride themselves of their dead and return to life. Mourning will be approached in the following context.

- Digital and physical
- Past and present
- Dead and life
- Inside and outside


Article4-

Death is not dead –
Artists love death and death loves art, but why doesn’t designer love death?
examples of death in art, design and music etc.


Article 5-

Can design aid in overcoming bereavement?

Keyword- transition


Most of us are in fortunate enough positions to believe that we hold some amount of control over events that take place in our lives. However, when a death occurs and takes away someone we love, we are expected to adjust to huge changes that we didn't ask for and certainly don't want. We are left feeling helpless and out of control. People who normally cope well with all types of crises can be left dazed and damaged.

My motivation for this project is my interest on the repressed emotion of the bereaved.

How a healthy mourning can provides courageous awarness and acceptance of death?

Irreversible Cessation Magazine - conclusion