In a world so full of opportunities for new experiences, it may seem utterly morbid to delve into anything even remotely hinting at the idea of death.
However, 24-year-old Corina Tan, a recent graduate from the NUS Department of Industrial Design, did just that for thesis project. She came up with a unique way to be remembered by loved ones, after death.
The Last Of Me is a service that allows you to leave behind messages that will be shared with your family and friends only after you've passed on. The service comes with a beautifully designed app, with which you can design an art print made up of your last words.
The team scans the obituaries daily to see if anyone in their databases has died. When someone is identified, they proceed to manufacture the items 'ordered' and deliver them to the intended recipients.
Corina’s The Last Of Me is a culmination of a whole year’s work delving deep into the human perception of death. It's aimed at making the whole experience of dying a whole lot less mystifying and abrupt for the ones left behind.
Corina explains that it all began with a Facebook friend's status, which got her thinking about death and what people thought about it.
She says, "Living in an urban city like Singapore, we do not meet death often enough to know what to do in the face of it, hence it becomes something to avoid, something taboo."
She explains further, “..there is this problem about death being a taboo topic or something that we just tend to avoid. So, based on these two ideas, I tried to find connections and to design something that addresses this. ”
On peoples’ changing perceptions of death, Corina says “I feel that death anxiety in Singapore is high due to our many cultural superstitions and beliefs, but with rising education level here, Singaporeans have opened up to planning for their death and seeing it as a necessity to do so when they are still healthy.”
Currently she is still in the process of looking for collaborators for funding, research testing, app coding and developing, publicity and marketing.
Story: Vulcan Post
In a world so full of opportunities for new experiences, it may seem utterly morbid to delve into anything even remotely hinting at the idea of death.
However, 24-year-old Corina Tan, a recent graduate from the NUS Department of Industrial Design, did just that for thesis project. She came up with a unique way to be remembered by loved ones, after death.
The Last Of Me is a service that allows you to leave behind messages that will be shared with your family and friends only after you've passed on. The service comes with a beautifully designed app, with which you can design an art print made up of your last words.
The team scans the obituaries daily to see if anyone in their databases has died. When someone is identified, they proceed to manufacture the items 'ordered' and deliver them to the intended recipients.
Corina’s The Last Of Me is a culmination of a whole year’s work delving deep into the human perception of death. It's aimed at making the whole experience of dying a whole lot less mystifying and abrupt for the ones left behind.
Corina explains that it all began with a Facebook friend's status, which got her thinking about death and what people thought about it.
She says, "Living in an urban city like Singapore, we do not meet death often enough to know what to do in the face of it, hence it becomes something to avoid, something taboo."
She explains further, “..there is this problem about death being a taboo topic or something that we just tend to avoid. So, based on these two ideas, I tried to find connections and to design something that addresses this. ”
On peoples’ changing perceptions of death, Corina says “I feel that death anxiety in Singapore is high due to our many cultural superstitions and beliefs, but with rising education level here, Singaporeans have opened up to planning for their death and seeing it as a necessity to do so when they are still healthy.”
Currently she is still in the process of looking for collaborators for funding, research testing, app coding and developing, publicity and marketing.
Story: Vulcan Post