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Memorial Vandalism
Digital memorials can be as susceptible to vandalism as can traditional memorials such as grave stones. The picture above is of St John’s Church graveyard in Pemberton, Wigan in England taken in 2015. The picture was uploaded to a public Facebook group in the area and...
Charlton Byam Wollaston
When the weather is hot I sometimes walk via the Borough Gardens in Dorchester and along West Walks which is often cool as it is shaded by big trees. Halfway along is a large garden gate with an inscription above it. The gateway is a memorial to Charlton Byam...
Intellectual Digital Legacy
Digital Legacy can be divided into four categories: emotional, financial, social and intellectual. A really good example of an intellectual digital legacy came to my attention when I read that Rob Wilkins, an assistant of the late author Terry Pratchett, destroyed...
Lawrence of Arabia
A few miles East of Dorchester in Dorset is the village of Moreton. The Frampton Arms is next to the train station and is named after the Frampton family who built Moreton House, and for 6 centuries have been the landlords of most of the village. I enjoyed about a...
Review of ‘Ghosts of the Tsunami’
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry My rating: 5 of 5 stars A very absorbing and moving book. I was keen to read it as I am a student studying death religion and culture, and thought that this book would cover all...
Cimetero Delle Fontanelle
I am a student studying death, so it was not surprising that during a holiday to Naples in Italy, I found myself drawn to death related tourism. On day one I was already visiting a cemetery! I reached ‘The Cimetero Fontanelle’ via a very exciting taxi journey, the...
Digital Avatars
I know how much you enjoyed my blog post about death-related emoji’s as I received so much feedback about it. I wonder how many of you have a Bitmoji account? For those who are not familiar with Bitmoji, it is a very clever avatar, that you can create which looks like...
Human Remains
Over the past few years there have been many stories in the press about the movement of human remains, due to town and city redevelopment plans. As our population increases and society becomes more diverse, we need to think differently about how we want to memorialise...
Death By Emoji
The Death by Emoji List Emoji icons are something that have become very popular in communication used on social media posts, so I decided that I would have a look to see which ones were related to death. When I made the emoji list there were more than I expected! I...