Nai Nai has stage four terminal lung cancer and about three months left to live. Everyone in the family knows that. Everyone, but Nai Nai. She thinks that the persistent cough she's been having is a leftover infection from a previous pneumonia. That the spots from her CT scan are just “benign shadows.” [...]

  Gris is a game developed by Nomada Studios, centred on the theme of grief. The team has employed Kübler-Ross' Five Stages of Grief model as well as colour psychology in the game's creation. In our past two instalments, we explored the motives and mechanics behind the game, as well as delving deeper [...]

  In the previous instalment, it was highlighted that Nomada Studios incorporates The Five Stages of Grief into Gris. In this second portion, we break down and exemplify how this psychological model was carefully woven into the game. For one, Nomada Studios made it so that there is a hidden quest within GRIS. [...]

The first thing you’d notice about the game Gris is very likely to be its stunning art. Highly lauded by critics all around, its praise is very much deserved and it is no wonder that the visuals are the first thing anyone picks out. Where games are typically 8bit, as simple character and [...]

Abraham Lincoln   Abraham Lincoln Memorial, credit unknown. Earlier, it was mentioned that embalming became normalised in western societies because necessity demanded it. However, that was only the starting point: embalming was only performed if it was necessary, and not because anyone voluntary chose to be embalmed post-mortem. Hence, while previously [...]

Warning: The content and images found in the article might be sensitive to some. You are advised to continue at your own discretion. According to the Cambridge dictionary, the act of embalming is ‘to use chemicals to prevent a dead body from decaying’.  In other words, to embalm is to preserve; to maintain [...]

While most embalmed bodies were intentionally treated with chemicals, there are several cases of remains being discovered in which, where due to conditions such as aridity of their climate, the freezing temperatures or acid naturally available in their environment, that desiccates the bodies for them to be preserved. To understand how bodies can [...]

Embalming is the art and science of preserving the deceased’s body by treating them with chemicals so as to hinder the decomposition of their remains. For most of us regular folk today, we understand embalming as the process of which the decedent is made suitable for public viewing in open casket funerals and [...]