Life everlasting and Death _________

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14597-2000May16.html

There was a time when some thought the only proof of eternal life was in direct mail/direct marketing: no matter what, those promos just keep on coming.

Now your funeral service can be web-cast and your family can rent space to perpetually remember your life - or just a picture of your grave stone.

Instead of a remark or two in the newspaper or your personal journal or a lock of hair in a piece of jewelery you can carry a video cassette and “remember” Grampa anyplace where video players can be found- between the halves at the bar where you watch the superbowl, at junior’s birthday party whne everyone is quietly eating cake, and at those family re-unions when things start to slow down.

Just because the technology is available is it necessary for us to use it?

To paraphrase the late Mr. Warhol, “in the future everyone will have his own Web site for fifteen minutes.”