Germany to launch Death Channel

A round-the-clock television channel devoted exclusively to ageing, dying and death is to be launched in Germany.

Eos TV will feature documentaries about graveyards, televised obituaries, tips on finding a decent retirement home and even how to install in-house stair lifts.

Wolf Tilmann Schneider, 51, a former TV producer, has joined forces with Germany's funeral association to launch the 24-hour, seven days a week channel on cable television and the internet.

He said: "More than 800,000 people died in Germany last year. Multiply that by four and you have a rough estimate of the number of relatives affected.

"They will be our target audience. We are convinced that Eos TV will attract viewers."

The channel aims to capitalise on the changing demographics in a country that has one of the lowest birth rates in the world.

Last year there were almost 150,000 more deaths than births, and an estimated 2.1 million elderly people were receiving professional care.

Viewers who tune into Eos TV can expect to be entertained by documentaries highlighting the beauty and tranquillity of graveyards both in Germany and abroad.

"It may come as a surprise, but older people really enjoy visiting cemeteries - not just to mourn, but for their peace and quiet," Mr Schneider said.

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Is it just me or are Germans a little weird Well anyways off to Germany... I hear they have a great cannibal community over there, very little discrimination and lots of buffets.

This just in, mass amounts of emo's flock to Germany!

I'm not surprised, in a country where a guy can get away with plastinating dead bodies and then put them in an exposition calling it art ....

jeez, 24 hour news channels can become boring, 24 hour weather channel is defnitly boring, death channel thats gonna bore you to death.

LOL go Germany!



Hey I went to see that exhibition - http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html - I even touched a few... and I had a serious craving for beef jerky afterwards

I used to watch the 24 hour real estate channel for hours when I was a kid... is that weird

My parents were both born in Germany and i always heard them and my grand parents talking about how their cemeteries were more like parks,they said that on sundays they were packed with families picknicking, kids running around playing games etc...my grandmother used to hate the cemeteries in Canada, she said they were far too depressing here!

Do you speak Germanese lol - we need you over here - http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...howtopic=100278

Which is kind of true. The old cemeteries look like that, the newer ones look like land development for the poor.

Kann ich helfen?

No i don,t but when i was little we only spoke german at home and i didn,t learn english till i went to K.garten,and then i refused to speak german as it embarassed me, so i have now completly forgotten the language!

Dang well thanks anyway... questionmark if you dont mind taking that link provided in my earlier post to the - "Too Sexy For My Bus," Woman Told - thread there is supposedly a picture of said woman and I really need to see how sexy you gotta be to almost get kicked off a bus... for research purposes only of course

Well...one day we're all gonna need that type of info.

Lol-There is definitely a lot of money to be made from death. Imagine owning a funeral home...$$$$$$$$$$bling

Bah I got excited when I saw this thread, I was thinking more along the lines of concentration camp documentries and what not. How dissapointing.

Those were great, I've been to three. Very relevant to my studies, to my knowledge it's about education not art, it's set up in a way for people to learn about the human body. One trip through an exhibit, and I knew the entire make-up of the human body. You even get to see the organs of those who drink and smoke - it puts you off alcohol and cigarettes - and the process of a fetus at every week/month, even an entire human body carved into centimetres so you can see the make of our bodies. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

all the ghosts and spirits of the world just went to germany, they want you, no not you, yes you, they want you to come and join them.


what a crazy world we live in wouldnt it be a waist of time because you probably have a heap of time after death to learn it all.

Personally, I would find viewing a "death" channel a tad depressing!

could you give me more info on what a emo is, i know its a youth thing attached to music but thats all i know.

where's Thora hird when you need her

Sure...

...actually I'm gunna give you a link instead because emos are really easy to make fun of and everybody does it so I will skip the cliched response - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_(slang)

truly amazing will they be showing people dying?

that channel sounds so depressing i hope the lighten the load by adding an episode of elmos world or two

emos are alot like goths, they like to pretend they are depressed and they like to write in journals and write bad poetry.

As if I wasn't already depressed enough !
Poor Germans ...what a stupid idea .

really??? he called it art? i thought it was for medical reasons. why was it at my science museun instead of the art museum? i saw the exhibition too... it looked weird and nasty. the horse was cool tho.

I agree with Lotus on depression.......It's like finding a remedy for your sickness but the doctor tells you it can cause headache, nausea, diareah, disorientation, depression, frequent urination, halitosis of the blow hole...well you get the idea...

Wow, this channel sounds depressing and boring.

And I thought we had weird channels here in the U.S.