Disposal of the dead: beyond burial and cremation

Grant number: DP180103148 | Funding period: 2018 - 2021

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Abstract

This project aims to investigate the contexts, motivations, responses to, and implications of emerging alternatives to the profoundly important practices of burial and cremation. This project will provide a timely and critical investigation of the social, cultural, regulatory, commercial, environmental, and personal challenges posed by alternative technologies for disposal of the dead. Expected outcomes will inform the funeral industry, regulators and the public.

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Robot death care: A study of funerary practice

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‘Stood to rest’: reorientating necrogeographies for the 21st century

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"Adapt or Die": The funeral trade show as a site of institutional anxiety

Luke Van Ryn, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs

2019-06-11

Funeral directors shot themselves in the foot over cremation, and cemeteries got splattered with the blood.

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Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary

Luke van Ryn, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn

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Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured

2019-01-01

This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, i..