---
title: "Pop Band “The KLF” to Build a Pyramid out of 35,000 Cremated Fans"
description: "## Hall of the Dead"
date: "2018-11-16"
modified: "2018-11-16"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/klf-build-pyramid-cremated-fans"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "burial"
  - "cremation"
  - "the digest"
  - "the klf"
---

# Pop Band “The KLF” to Build a Pyramid out of 35,000 Cremated Fans

![The recently reunited band The KLF wants 35,000 fans to stuff their cremated remains into a brick to be built into a giant pyramid. Seems reasonable.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-klf-pyramid-35000-cremated-fans.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: KLF\</em\>*

## Hall of the Dead

The KLF, a pop group from the [80s and 90s](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVAJL6_UPVc>), want your bodies. More specifically, they want you to agree to mail them a brick stuffed your [cremated remains](<https://futurism.com/companies-digital-afterlife-ethical-guidelines>) so they can build a giant pyramid, far in the future.

*Pitchfork* [reports that the band](<https://pitchfork.com/news/the-klf-announce-plans-to-build-pyramid-out-of-34592-dead-people/>), which reunited last year, is [selling $126 bricks](<https://www.mumufication.com/>) with the slogan “buy now, die later.” Customers — or their loved ones — are supposed to return them to the band with cremated remains piled inside.

They'll call the grim ziggurat the "People's Pyramid." It may sound off-putting, but what else were you going to do [with your ashes](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/cryogenically-frozen-brains-woken-up-transplanted-donor-bodies-within-three-years-neurosurgeon-claims>)? Scatter them like a nerd?

## House of 35,000 Corpses

The band hopes that it’ll enlist exactly 34,592 people to send their remains — that’s how many bricks will be required to complete the pyramid.

*Pitchfork* reported that construction will begin November 23, at a ceremony called the "Toxteth Day Of The Dead" in Liverpool. [According to](<http://thequietus.com/articles/25190-jams-toxteth-day-of-the-dead-what-time-is-death>) a blog called the *Quietus*, the Toxteth Day Of The Dead is an annual celebration held by people who call themselves the [Justified Ancients of Mu Mu](<https://www.mumufication.com/about/>), all of which seems to have been created by the KLF.

## Reality Check

We have so many questions, like how The KLF plans to store the dead-human-bricks. What will the local government say, and has The KLF done the paperwork that’s presumably necessary to build this modern-day necropolis?

We at Futurism aren’t sure we’ll ever learn the answers, but we invite you to join us in being delightfully baffled at this whole spectacle.

**READ MORE:** [The KLF Announce Plans to Build Pyramid Out of 34,592 Dead People](<https://pitchfork.com/news/the-klf-announce-plans-to-build-pyramid-out-of-34592-dead-people/>) \[*Pitchfork\]*

***More on futuristic burials: [7 Futuristic Things To Do With Your Body When You Die](<https://futurism.com/futuristic-funeral-death-die>)***

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
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