X-Message-Number: 29592
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:09:45 -0700
From: Olaf Henny <>
Subject: 24/7 TV channel about death, funeral options etc. in Germany
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It will be autumn before the new channel opens, but it may be a 
huge opportunity for CI and Alcor to reach about 85 million 
people in Germany Austria and part of Switzerland of whom almost 
a million are actively concerned with making their final 
arrangements and will, no doubt, pay attention to the 
alternatives discussed in this channel.  It might also be 
considered, that religiosity and therefore reservations on basis 
of religion play a much lesser role there than in the US.
Quote:
New TV Channel Takes on Death and Dying
By Charles Hawley

There are shows for cooking, relationships, weddings and 
property -- why not for dying? A new TV channel in Germany plans 
to rectify the omission with 24/7 digital death.

Coming soon to a television near you:

Cooking shows are a dime a dozen on television these days. Home 
improvement shows hit the big time in the 1990s. Property shows 
are huge in Britain. Relationships and weddings have likewise 
become popular prime-time fodder. But the one event that faces 
every human on Earth has never had its own television channel.

Until now.Starting this autumn in Germany, EosTV -- a 
24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week television channel devoted 
exclusively to aging, dying and mourning -- will hit the 
airwaves. Viewers will be served up documentaries about 
cemeteries, shows about changing funeral culture, and helpful 
tips about finding a retirement home or nursing care. Should you 
be looking to install a stair lift in your home, EosTV will be 
the place to find information about that too. Death and dying, in 
other words, right in your living room. Unquote

More: 
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,490174,00.html

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