■ Rachel Connor, professor of design at the University of Leeds Beckett
It has been encapsulated into a trend in recent years, both in literature and in life, Scandinavian concepts in a single word. Hygge , for example - that for comfort, satisfaction and well-Danish - he dominated the publishing industry in 2016 - being.
Now the new buzz word is "dostadning." In the block - a hybrid of death "Swedish words and" purification "How do these tags are actually a part of Scandinavian culture is debatable, but dostadning the new phenomenon is in its Margareta Magnusson described the easy art of cleaning the Swedish Death . in Europe, the book has occupied a lot of space research and according to Time Magazine dostadning the new fashion trend will be in the US in 2018.
The book Magnusson agrees with the current anxiety to the question of space in the 21st century Dostadning enters active compensation and aware of assets before death. The idea is that parents give the difficult task of saving decisions about what to keep and what to throw away or. The book reflects the simple fact that we all live a longer life. The result is of course more.
the digital death
But it also means we had more time to get rid of things have. We can start planning our death by degreasing what we leave behind - pay for unnecessary items that you really need. It is the opposite of being perhaps buried the ancient Egyptian tradition with things that could help us in the afterlife.
Magnusson best tips for dostadning mainly focus on the material things - if it is proposed to keep a book for the family password so that they can access easily to information online. But this is no easy task, as more and more of our data - photos, letters, souvenirs - and the real things - music and books - exists in digital form rather than analog. And since most of our lives is almost recorded and stored, it is likely that the parents might not be able to access.
A documentary on the same subject recently aired on BBC Radio 4. Heritage My Digital was part of, what we need to about the talk Death series and presents incurable patients with a broad fingerprint, rely on the Internet - especially through social media - connect them with the world. The program also mourners heard had access to the data of difficulties, including Facebook profiles, relatives after death.
The Director of death
My recent short story How to heal life , published by Storgy books in the anthology of Earthrise, refers specifically to this topic. In the not too distant future, parents of a young woman suddenly died in an accident trying Jesse to order - one, manager of digital death "- your life does not heal, but clear: access files and destroy them.
In this fictional world in which everyone is obliged to dictate the terms of your digital domain, it is illegal to falsify Jesse online content young. However, the financial reward of freedom of labor would mean respect forever in an office.
The story grew from an idea that I find online career that will become ubiquitous in the future. digital management of death is, obviously, to be determined with certainty "a thing". And as we now have lawyers or writers Commission will monitor our field team will come a time when people also set someone to clean your fingerprint
In our lives already busy tending to our online existence you do give us something? Maybe it is so. But it takes on the responsibility for our own affairs. If we do not decisions about what to keep or reject - real or virtual - and finally, others. And if we go no clear guidelines as to where to find our digital content that makes things more difficult for everyone.
How Magnusson wrote that death is cleaning "a permanent form of organization that makes daily life runs smoothly. What better to leave behind only legacy, to facilitate the process of mourning for those we love?
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