TVs with broadcasts about the dead appeared on the graves of Novosibirsk
The first Russian monument with a TV was erected at the Novosibirsk cemetery Instead of a photo of a dead man, a video with moments of his life is broadcast on the screen of the building, Sib.fm reports. The structure is a crypt with two niches: an urn with ashes is located at the bottom, and a liquid crystal monitor that plays a video is located above about the deceased. The idea of such a monument came from the engineer from Naberezhnye Chelny Marsel Mukhametshin – he was afraid to lose the memory of two deceased relatives. In 2018, he presented a project of a building with a TV at an exhibition in Yekaterinburg, where representatives of the Novosibirsk crematorium became interested in him. The cemetery employees are confident that the digital monument better preserves and conveys the real appearance of a person – so the descendants will be able