Immortality means unending life or enduring fame. Well, perhaps we do a little of this at SentForever as we allow people to send messages or images of themselves and their loved ones that will last forever. 

We read about an artist who uses the ashes of loved ones her clients have lost in the paintings she does. Val Thompson from Ash2Art adds the secret ingredient to her paint to create a unique, personalised and lasting tribute. She just mixes it in, adding another dash ‘to help build up a bit of texture on the canvas’.

This is a wonderful concept as it is a highly personalized and very meaningful way of capturing an image that means a lot to the person and yet which is also so intimate, in that it contains the lost one’s ashes.

One client lost her husband from a heart attack the day after returning from a beach holiday. Val took some of the ashes and created three wonderful beach scenes to capture the last memories of the lady’s husband

We love this idea as it helps someone’s memory live on after their death in much the same way that our remembrance messages do.

New dwarf planet

Posted by Chris 

Two new planets were discovered this week – which I find really interesting. The first is actually only a dwarf planet about one-third the size of Pluto. It orbits about 50 times further away from the sun as our Earth. It’s egg shaped with two smaller bits orbiting it due to a collision at some time in its past, and has been named Haumea after the Hawaiian mythology goddess of childbirth and fertility. 

The second is a really big planet; about eight times the size of Jupiter and it orbits a distant star about 500 light years from Earth. It was discovered by three scientists from the University of Toronto. This planet is the first one that has ever actually been seen orbiting a star other than our own sun. Previously observed planets were either free-floating in space or were inferred from collected data. 

What I find especially interesting is the difference in distance from Earth. SentForever’s eternal messages are transmitted through space at the speed of light, which means that a message sent to the dwarf planet would reach it in just under seven hours while a message to the big planet would take 500 years to reach there. Quite a difference!   

But another interesting angle is that we are excited because we have just discovered them – even though they have quietly been “doing their thing” for several billion years. It’s a bit like meeting your life-partner or soul-mate. When you actually meet them you will realize they have been on Earth for many years going about their daily lives – it’s just that you only recently discovered them. If you were a planet or a person how do you actually “announce your existence?”   

What if you were to live your life and die – and nobody knew, or nobody remembered you? Maybe that means that you never really existed! I seem to be getting a bit philosophical but I’m thinking about making sure that you are remembered. I’m thinking about immortality – ensuring that you are recognized and remembered for the rest of time.

The messages that SentForever transmit continue to travel across the Universe for the rest of eternity – so isn’t this making you immortal? I’m thinking interesting thoughts here. I’ll come back to this in a blog post the very near future.