Abstract
Technological change is an integral part of the modern world, at least as we can perceive and understand it, it structures our relationship to the world, but also what it means to be human. The current global pandemic has strengthened our comprehensive technological mediation, highlighting the presence in many aspects of our daily lives, but also penetrating areas where it was less visible before the pandemic.
A funeral is a very physical event. The body of the deceased in the hall, around him the family and acquaintances mourn, experience the moment of loss of a loved one who cannot be returned.
At the time of the pandemic, however, classical burials (whether followed by insertion into the ground in a coffin on the site of a local cemetery, cremation, or natural burial) became an impossible ceremony. Few funeral homes switched to funeral transfers for their families, as a replacement for the last farewell, because local regulations did not allow any events to take place for more people.
Post-phenomenological analysis seeks to capture and analyze this partial transformation, which currently looks like a temporary solution, but on the other hand fits into a longer line of creating the digital image of the deceased (gathering a digital footprint on one website, maintaining social networks of the dead, etc.). The paper attempts to reflect on a small technology - small gesture: how it further structures the body of the dead and the living.