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- 1Pringles offers cremation urn contest with 200 years of chips▼Want to spend eternity in a Pringles can? You could win 200 years of chips
Pringles is running a contest that will give one winner a custom urn shaped like a Pringles can, along with a lifetime supply of chips — calculated as 200 years' worth. The unusual promotion by the Kellanova-owned snack brand lets fans enter for the chance to be memorialised in the brand's iconic cylinder packaging after death.
- 2Mt Gox founder Mark Karpelès declares himself redeemed▼At long last! Mt Gox founder who accidentally made his hacked crypto exchange users rich, has been "redeemed!" # Bitcoin
Mark Karpelès, founder of the collapsed Mt Gox bitcoin exchange, says he has been "redeemed" years after the 2014 hack that drained the platform. Ironically, bitcoin's price surge since then means many of the exchange's victims who lost coins ended up far richer, and creditors have been receiving long-delayed repayments. Crypto observers are revisiting Karpelès's fall from grace and his unlikely afterlife as an unlikely beneficiary of the industry he helped spark.
- 3Cleveland Museum of Art opens exhibition on afterlife in medieval Korea▼Cleveland Museum of Art showcases afterlife in medieval Korea through Jan. 2027
The Cleveland Museum of Art has opened an exhibition exploring beliefs about the afterlife in medieval Korea, running through January 2027. The show presents art from the period reflecting funerary and spiritual traditions of the Korean peninsula. It adds to the museum's holdings and public programming on East Asian art and is drawing attention from art audiences.
- 4Writer buys back her own books from second-hand shops▼Second life: I buy back my own books from second-hand shops
A writer describes tracking down and repurchasing copies of her own books from second-hand and charity shops, giving discarded volumes what she calls a second life. The reflective piece touches on the fate of out-of-print work, the afterlife of physical books, and what it feels like to reunite with one's own words years later. Readers of literary essays and book culture commentary are the natural audience.
- 5Austin Peay Theatre to Stage 'Ride the Cyclone' in October▼Austin Peay Theatre Announces ‘Ride the Cyclone’ October 22nd-25th
Austin Peay State University's theatre program in Clarksville, Tennessee has announced a production of the musical 'Ride the Cyclone', running October 22nd through 25th. The darkly comic show, which follows a group of teenagers facing an afterlife choir, has drawn a devoted following in recent years, and local theatre fans are sharing news of the upcoming performances.
- 6Richard K. Morgan quote on religion circulated online●A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. —Richard K. Morgan ______
A quotation from science fiction author Richard K. Morgan is being shared: "A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one." The line, critical of religious focus on the afterlife, is being passed around among users discussing atheism, faith and God.
- 7Heaven as a Symbol of Eternal Peace Across Faiths●Heaven is described in many traditions as a place of eternal peace and presence with the divine, inspiring hope and refl
The concept of heaven is being discussed as a place of eternal peace and presence with the divine, a belief shared across many religious traditions. The idea is presented as a source of hope and reflection that has endured across cultures and centuries, inviting people to consider what the afterlife might mean for faith and spirituality today.
- 8New Art Exhibition Interprets the Egyptian Book of the Dead▼‘The Egyptian Book of the Dead’ is interpreted through art in ‘Skeletons Become Children’
The exhibition 'Skeletons Become Children' presents artistic interpretations of 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead', the ancient Egyptian funerary text. The show reimagines the centuries-old spells and imagery of the afterlife through contemporary art, drawing attention from arts audiences in Atlanta and beyond.
- 9David Byrne's New Book Explores the Afterlife of Good Ideas▼David Byrne’s New Book Explores the Strange Afterlife of Good Ideas: From Vermeer’s Paintings to Roman Concrete & Dark Matter
David Byrne, the Talking Heads frontman and longtime writer on creativity, has released a new book examining how good ideas persist, transform, and resurface across history. Topics range from Vermeer's paintings and Roman concrete to dark matter, tracing the strange second lives that inventions and artworks lead long after their creation.