A circular shelf used for displaying deeply personal objects featured in designer Anker Bak's 3 Days of Design exhibition, which was also used to launch an initiative focused on designing for people in vulnerable situations. More about Anker Bak and Jonas Sølberg launch Dignity Design platform at 3 Days of Design
As part of a residency focused on palliative care, Irish artist John Conway has developed a mobile printing press that can be wheeled to a patient's bedside to produce prints capturing their thoughts and emotions as they near death. More about John Conway designs mobile printing press to record people's feelings at the end of their lives
The medal for this year's best overall contribution to the London Design Biennale has gone to the Malta pavilion, which is presenting an expandable spherical urn designed to enshrine the ashes of multiple people together. More about Collective urns designed to "remove ego" from funeral process
A lightweight coffin and an aestheticised pill box feature in Anker Bak's exhibition about empathetic design for the elderly as part of this year's 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen. More about Anker Bak designs products to address "taboo" topics of ageing and death
Pale sandstone walls bring a "warm and welcoming" feel to this columbarium in a cemetery in Radom, Poland, which has been completed by local studio BDR Architekci. More about BDR Architekci clads columbarium in Poland with pale sandstone
LA-based travel photographer Marianna Jamadi has collaborated with Mexico City-based ceramic practice Menat Studio to create a collection of commemorative urns. More about Kunokaiku urns designed to allow "remembering through ritual"
American startup Recompose has opened a funeral home in Seattle designed by architecture firm Olson Kundig, where human remains are composted and turned into a nutrient-rich soil that can nurture new plant life. More about Recompose human composting facility "transforms your loved one's body into soil"
Dezeen School Shows: we've picked five student projects that feature in Dezeen School Shows that examine themes relating to death, burial and the concept of an afterlife. More about Five student design and architecture projects that respond to death
Designer Ony Yan has created a two-part system that can be installed in single-person households to notify neighbours in the event of their death, and was designed to "encourage a community to look after each other". More about In Memoriam device detects when someone dies alone
Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has combined wool and vegetable-tanned leather to craft a cremation urn, which will naturally break down in soil once it is buried. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune designs biodegradable burial urn made from wool
Graduates from London's Royal College of Art have developed a way to form artificial reefs called Resting Reefs from cremated ashes, in a bid to provide a "meaningful funeral service" that regenerates endangered ecosystems. More about RCA students develop underwater urns that double as oyster reefs
Ceramic designer John Booth has created five contemporary stoneware cremation urns decorated with joyful colours and flowers for death specialist Farewill. More about John Booth designs "monumental and bold" flower-shaped cremation urns
Landscape architect Fletcher Studio has created a memorial forest in California as an alternative to standard cemeteries with an entrance pavilion designed in collaboration with OpenScope Studio. More about Fletcher Studio embeds cemetery alternative into Californian forest
Creative consultancy The Liminal Space has designed Life Support, a mobile-first website designed to help people deal with death using their smartphones. More about Life Support is a digital tool to help users cope with death
Kaan Architecten has built a pavilion to commemorate Dutch victims of the second world war, with thickset walls that strategically frame views of the trees and sky. More about Loenen Pavilion offers space to rest and reflect in Dutch war cemetery
Vancouver-based Shape Architecture has unveiled the charred-wood South Haven Centre for Remembrance within a municipal cemetery on the outskirts of the city of Edmonton, Canada. More about Shape Architecture tops non-denominational centre for remembrance with angular tower
TU Delft researcher Bob Hendrikx has created Living Cocoon, a coffin made from mycelium that helps bodies decompose faster while improving the surrounding soil. More about Bob Hendrikx designs "living coffin" from mushroom mycelium
Yarauvi is a conceptual nondenominational burial place, re-released by Miró Rivera Architects as founder Juan Miró mourned the death of his tutor, professor Michael Sorkin, from coronavirus. More about Miró Rivera Architects imagines floating city of the dead in response to coronavirus
Aeternum's range of Mourning jewellery is designed to offer people who are grieving a death "something to hold in times of sorrow". More about Mourning Jewellery by Aeternum
A Colombian company has created a flatpack hospital bed made of cardboard that can be transformed into a coffin as healthcare services are overwhelmed by coronavirus victims. More about Cardboard hospital beds that double as coffins developed as "worthy solution" to coronavirus crisis