Press Your Ashes Into Vinyl When You Die

A UK company called And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes in a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favourite tunes or their last will and testament.

The company was founded by Jason Leach, who co-founded the techno group and record label Subhead in the 1990s and has since founded a number of other labels, including House of Fix, Daftwerk and Death to Vinyl.

What happpens is the ashes are sprinkled onto the raw piece of vinyl before it is pressed by the plates. Then, when the plates exert their pressure on the vinyl in order to create the grooves, the ashes are pressed into the record to eternally preserve your ashes in the piece of wax. The basic package costs £2,000 and comprises of the standard artwork along with up to 30 ash-flecked discs with whatever sounds you choose – songs, your own spoken word, or just the crackle that is created by the needle gliding over your ashes – lasting a maximum of 24 minutes.

You can read more about the company here.