Death may be permanent, but our customs for how we deal with the dead are always changing. Cremation, which today in the UK is the predominant method for disposing of the mortal remains of the deceased has only been legal here since the late 19th Century. And since the1990s we have seen a whole host of brand-new funereal practices. The departed can now be returned to nature in many novel ways: buried in eco-friendly coffins made from cardboard or wicker in woods or meadows, or they can be cryogenically frozen, or vitrified, or compressed into diamonds, or even fired into space. You probably never realised there were so many exit options available to you when you depart this mortal realm.
In this talk Roger Luckhurst will examine some recent trends in the treatment of the dead, and ask whether we are poised to move beyond the notion of the grave and the graveyard.
Roger Luckhurst
has written lots of books on science fiction, horror and the
Gothic. His previous publications include The Mummy's Curse: The
True Story of a Dark Fantasy and critical studies of the films The
Shining and Alien. He has also co-editied books including The Fin
de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c.1880-1900 and
Transactions and Encounters: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth
Century. He has edited numerous Gothic classics, including
Stevenson's Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde, H. G. Wells' The Time
Machine and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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BEYOND THE GRAVE
Changing Trends in Burial Practices |
15:30 - 16:55 | £12.00 |
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