Hi-def & surround sound with color commentary and commercials will be available when?
Northern Ireland undertakers pioneer Webcast funerals for far-flung mourners
In Ireland, they bury people quickly — and now they’re harnessing the speed of the Internet to help families grieve across the globe.
A Northern Ireland mortuary director has launched a pioneering service of broadcasting funerals on its Web site for mourners too distant, ill or busy to make it in person. It’s reckoned to be the first of its kind worldwide.
“We have one camera to give you the perspective of the minister looking out to the congregation, one showing the hearse and cortege of mourners outside, and one that looks like you’re sitting in amidst the mourners,” said Jim Clarke of Clarke & Son undertakers in Newtownards, an eastern suburb of Belfast.
The family-owned firm, founded in 1918 by Clarke’s grandfather, began experimenting with streaming audio and video of funeral services two years ago at its other mortuary and chapel in another nearby suburb, Bangor.
It is launching new software and a suite of cameras at its second funeral home in Newtownards this week — a development that, to the surprise of Clarke, has spurred international interest.
As a person living halfway around the world from my family and old friends, I would use this service. I rarely can justify going to weddings and funerals but would use a podcast or – better yet – video stream.
I’m not into the whole death trip thing today, but those internet tubes have got lots of stuff. Like, coming real soon, all the courses MIT has, for free.
I guess it makes sense…..I attended my sister’s wedding at the Viva Las Vegas elvis theme wedding chapel in Vegas, and then watched it again later on their website.
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How their marriage holding up? I wonder how those kinds of marriages stand-up to traditional ones.