How do we understand death today, what beliefs do we hold and how do we fit them into the digital age? Trends such as secular funerals, green burials and digital cemeteries can be identified, driven by communities that do not see their values about death reflected in traditions. EVA is born within this new context with the intention of responding to emerging needs around the mortuary process. The new places of worship should not be a mere technological adaptation of the old ones, but should be designed in consonance with the dimensions that have defined the advance towards contemporary society and will define future societies: secularisation, rationalism, science and environmentalism.
To unify all these emerging actions, we thought it would be necessary to create a new type of funeral home, or simply a comprehensive service that would provide people with alternative methods to carry out their dying process in line with their identity, personality and values. In this way we came up with the key to generating a holistic mortuary service: people using this service could enjoy the benefits of having a post-mortem identity and place, while the rest of the process would revolve around the compensation of the footprint caused by such a profile. This is how the other services were naturally born: the footprint and offset calculator, the content filtering tool, and so on. In this way, we managed to create a platform that would serve as a guide at a key moment in life, thus creating a new way of looking at death that was more open, undramatised and connected to nature.
EVA is a platform to assist in the mortuary process that proposes a new way of understanding, feeling and responding to death according to new paradigms and emerging values. EVA understands human existence as inhabiting a body and the planet, with a synergistic relationship between nature and technology. The services provided by EVA are aimed at balancing this relationship through actions that compensate for the impact of the footprint left by the deceased.
EVA aims to reframe the way we think and act about the end of our lives. It is a reaction to the tragic view of death brought by Western religious traditions, which aims to break the taboo and generate a more open view and insert it into the conversation of society.
The EVA service reformulates all concepts and rituals related to death from the funeral to the concept of eternal peace. The process of mourning becomes an act of giving back to the Earth all that it has lent us to make our existence richer. Thus, the idea of "resting in peace" is conceived as something that is obtained after having compensated nature for what it has given us, as a kind of karmic act.
