Deathday cakes...

Only recall mere snippets – but my main dream last night revolved around the theme of an organisation that specialised in “Deathday” celebrations. I was either a new employee for the company or I was just being shown around their premises as a visitor, but someone was explaining to me about everything they did.

They were trying to commercialise death and make it something that was celebrated, in the same way that birthday celebrations can generate big business. They wanted to encourage the public to have “deathday parties” and buy  themed products from them –like deathday cakes and “happy death day” wrapping paper and cards etc

One of their other money spinners involved creating video recordings of people – speaking on a various range of topics – in order to preserve a record of their thoughts, opinions, random rants and raves, jokes and musings on life etc before their deathday occured. These were then all edited down into a “thought for the day” type format and turned into 30 second or less clips that were turned into some sort of phone app – which would let the person’s loved one’s download random “advice” or words of wisdom on a daily basis after they had died.

Just before I woke up I remember growing slightly suspicious because it emerged that they had some connection with the company Montsanto – this seemed to be in particular reference to the ingredients they used in their deathcakes...