The design and inscription of a gravestone can say surprisingly much about the person who rests there.
A QR plaque can make the memorial site even more personal—and almost alive—through text, images, video, and music.
Month: February 2026
Chinese New Year: The Year of the Horse – Death’s Noble Steed
On February 17, 2026, the celebration of the Chinese New Year began, ushering in the Year of the Horse.
In the Chinese calendar, each animal is paired with one of the five elements, and this year it is the Horse combined with Fire — the Fire Horse.
The Fire Horse is associated with strong energy and drive, independence and courage, rapid change, optimism, and faith in the future.
Perfekta egenskaper när vi jobbar på att acceptera vår egen dödlighet och lever livet fullt ut,
trots vetskapen om att döden alltid följer oss i spåren, ibland i full galopp.
In this post, you’ll read about horses from religion and folklore that trot alongside both gods and humans through myth, life, and death.
A Romance with Death – On the Bookshelf
We humans have been personifying Death for thousands of years.
I do the same with my own version of Death in the form of the Grim Reaper Herrow, a character you can meet in Coffinfolk’s standalone short stories.
Why we do this is a topic for a future blog post—today I’m keeping things a bit lighter.
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, here are a few reading tips where Death is not only personified, but quite literally romanticized. 🖤
Transi – Art or Nightmare?
Transi, also known as cadaver tombs or cadaver monuments, were a way of adorning a grave with a sculpture that differed greatly from the types of grave monuments we are accustomed to seeing today in cemeteries or burial vaults.
Instead of depicting the deceased as peacefully resting, the sculpture portrays the person’s decaying corpse or skeleton. It served both as a graphic reminder of life’s fragility and the impermanence of the human body, and as a more frightening reminder of what awaited after death: the torments of Purgatory.