PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a grave that can leave an individual grave and a research result throughout a lifetime as a proof of life although an unmarried person without a successor while being simple and fulfilling a need function without requiring a conventional exaggerated graveyard and gravestone.SOLUTION: A book type grave includes a cinerary box provided with a storage part for ashes, a booklet and a medium flash memory for personal history compilation data. The box is formed inside with an ash storage part and a storage part for the booklet or the like by a partition plate. The ashes of the deceased with no successor are stored in the ash storage part of the book type grave, and the flash memory or the like recording an information medium and an image medium of the personal history compilation is separately stored as the proof of life in the storage part for the booklet or the like. Characters, a picture or a photograph is placed on a cover of the book grave, and the book grave is arranged on a frame placed along a wall surface and deified to provide a worship method enabling a visitor to the grave to read the achievement booklet left by the deceased, as reference for the remaining life while cherishing the memory of the deceased.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】単身者で承継者はいないが、個人墓と自分の生涯を通じた研究成果を生きた証として残せる墓で、従来のようなおおげさな墓地墓石を必要としない、簡便で、ニーズ機能を満たした墓を提供すること。【解決手段】本発明は、骨箱に遺骨収蔵と小冊子収納及び自分史編纂資料の媒体フラッシュメモリー収納部を設け、該箱は、その内部に仕切板によって遺骨収納部と小冊子等の収納部とを形成したブック形墓である。また、本発明は上記のブック形墓の遺骨収納部に承継者のいない故人の遺骨又は遺灰を収蔵し、小冊子等収納部に生きた証として収納し、別途自分史編纂の情報媒体、映像媒体を収録したフラッシュメモリー等を収納し、ブック墓の表紙等に文字、絵画又は写真等を掲載して、このブック墓を壁面に沿う架台に並べ置きして祭ることを特徴とする。墓参者は故人の残した業績小冊子を拝読し故人を偲びながら残りの人生の参考にすることが可能な参拝方法である。【選択図】図1
