covid memorial wall painted with red hearts and photos

Finally made it to the #CovidMemorialUK wall at #Embankment #London and even as a #Death #Researcher this left me breathless. The wall stretches from Tower Bridge down Albert Embankment opposite #BigBen and near the #LondonEye #Covid #DeathStudies #Commemoration

#DACNET on the 26 March 4.30pm GMT 👉 register deathandsociety.org/eventsandgro...
#DeathStudies

#EuroHistHealth welcomes @chendirl.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social to our next WG5 lunchtime seminar at 12.30 CET on 15 APRIL 2026. The paper is titled * Voluntary Gravedigging as Living Heritage * Check your email/bulletin for the meeting link! #Skystorians #DeathStudies #Research #Speirgorm

Cover Routledge Handbook of Dark Events - black with white line drawing of dancing skeletons

Congratulations to my lovely @asdsdeath.bsky.social
colleagues who have chapters in this new 📖 #BookSky #DarkHeritage #DarkTourism #DeathStudies #Heritage #HelenFrisby @drdan.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social 👏

Opinion | Our Hospice System Subverts the Very Point of Hospice Care

Dying in the US is "increasingly corporatized" --and other significant challenges with the hospice system that requires so much labor of families of the dying one. By Sandeep Jauhar. #hospice #death #deathstudies #grief #Healthcare

25 Feb - 8am GMT an early start to our lovely #Postdoc get together so if you are free, please do join us for a catch up! This month co-hosted by outgoing committee rep Dr Jennie Riley and new host Dr Ciara Henderson @chendirl.bsky.social #DeathStudies #ECR #AcademicChatter #Deathies #ASDS

On aquamation, or water cremation- fascinating. #death #deathstudies #aquamation

@asdsdeath.bsky.social #Postdoc Research Meet Up ONLINE next Wed 21 Jan - register to join this lovely group of #DeathStudies researchers. Always something interesting to learn #Recommend #PeerSupport #AcademicChatter deathandsociety.org/postdoctoral...

This sounds like a fascinating and important project. Have you connected with any of the lovely #DeathStudies people? @asdsdeath.bsky.social @deathstudiespod.bsky.social

Rob McConnell Interviews - LOUISA OAKLEY GREEN - Loitering at the Gate to Eternity Louisa Oakley Green is an author and researcher whose work explores the profound threshold between life and death, particularly through Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). In Loitering at the Gate to Eternity, she presents carefully documented accounts of individuals who came close to death and returned with transformative insights into consciousness, survival beyond the body, and the nature of eternity. Louisa approaches this sensitive subject with compassion and intellectual rigor, weaving firsthand testimonies with thoughtful reflection to illuminate what these experiences suggest about the continuity of awareness and humanity’s spiritual destiny.

📣 New Podcast! "Rob McConnell Interviews - LOUISA OAKLEY GREEN - Loitering at the Gate to Eternity" on @Spreaker #afterlife #awareness #consciousness #deathstudies #eternity #existence #immortality #lifeafterdeath #meaning #metaphysical #nde #neardeathexperience #research #souljourney

Rob McConnell Interviews - CHRIS CARTER - Science and The Near Death Experience Chris Carter is a researcher and author who approaches the Near-Death Experience (NDE) through a rigorous scientific and philosophical lens. Rather than dismissing NDEs as hallucinations or brain anomalies, Chris examines peer-reviewed studies, verified clinical cases, and cross-cultural accounts to explore what these experiences may reveal about consciousness, the mind-brain relationship, and the possibility that awareness can exist independent of the physical body. His work challenges strict materialist assumptions and invites thoughtful discussion on survival of consciousness, empirical evidence, and the limits of conventional science when confronting extraordinary human experiences.

📣 New Podcast! "Rob McConnell Interviews - CHRIS CARTER - Science and The Near Death Experience" on @Spreaker #afterlife #awareness #clinicalevidence #consciousness #deathstudies #empiricaldata #humanconsciousness #materialism #medicalcases #mindbrainproblem #ndes #neardeathexperience #research

The Lives They Lived (Gift Article) Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.

Thank you @nytimes.com Magazine for including bonobo Kanzi in your remembrance of artists and innovators who died in 2025. I expected Jane Goodall, of course, but delighted to see you embrace a #multispecies memorial. #primates #Kanzi #JaneGoodall #anthropology #death #deathstudies

Great talk with the expert and fellow Gothicist @anatomicalcat.bsky.social discussing the strange history of cadavers.

#cadavers #deathstudies #graves

ICYMI!! Our book is out in the world, & we're so proud!
If you want to grab a copy, use code SPIN2909 for 50% hard copies from now til the end of Jan! 🏺
#archaeology #deathstudies

Holiday Diaries: Paris, Utrecht, & the Death, Dying, and Disposal 17 Conference Hi friends, it has been a minute since I’ve sat down to write anything on the blog! My last post was in May, and since then it has been a pretty busy summer with fieldwork, family visits, and…

I finally finished a blog post about #deathstudies sites & the #DDD17 conference from August! Check it out below! #archaeology 🏺

spadeandthegrave.com/2025/12/09/h...

One of my favourite episodes of @deathstudiespod.bsky.social. Not just a great episode for those who study Death Studies, but for anyone who has an interest in life, academic study, and many more subjects.

#DeathStudies #Academia #Grief #Loss #Purpose

Congratulations! 🎉 I’m really looking forward to exploring it. An interdisciplinary approach to #deathstudies is truly valuable — thanks for sharing your work. 📚✨

📖 Released today! For anyone with an interest in #DeathStudies #Death #Archaeology this fascinating book on sale now @berghahnbooks.bsky.social www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...
Use code SPIN2909 for half off! #Booksky #History #IrishStudies #Speirgorm #Skystorians #Burial #Commemoration

An image with a book cover on the left, showing rows of jars of dirt. The book title is in yellow, and reads 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present' Edited by Robert Spinelli and Robyn S. Lacy.

Friends, the book is out!! If you are interesed in #deathstudies from an interdisciplinary perspective, please consider checking it out:
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

ALSO we have a 50% off discount code! Use SPIN2909 for 50% off the print version of the book, til Jan 31st! Yay! 🏺

The cover features solid colors: vertically, blues into oranges and reds. A note mentions the novel is part of Oprah's Book Club 2025.

From Ann Packer's Some Bright Nowhere, among the most beautiful death and dying fiction: For a while he would be at risk of reducing her to a collection of excellent qualities. #SundaySentence #Booksky #deathstudies

Death in Sociology | Perlego Discover the best Death in Sociology books online. Read thousands of professional and academic eBooks in one simple space.

If you are into #deathstudies #thanatology #sociologyofdeath and assorted reads, Perlego has an excellent list of available books: www.perlego.com/browse/socia...

Between them and @archive.org I'm pretty much set for sources for my PhD 😊

Join us on 10 December, 16:00 GMT for a free online talk with Evie King, author of Ashes to Admin.
She’ll be sharing stories from her work with Section 46 funerals - exploring care, dignity, and who buries those who die alone.

Book here: deathandsociety.org/online-event...

#deathstudies

First-ever recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks — School of Medicine University of Louisville What happens in our brain as we die?

Woah.... love smart science and incredible resourceful researchers! Doesn't this bring up so many questions for end of life and death care? #ScienceWithSoul #LoveResearch #Science #DeathStudies #History #MedHums louisville.edu/medicine/new...

Enjoyed Professor Patricia MacCormack's conversation with Christine Oakley Harrington about Death Activism, followed by a book signing.

@treadwells-books.bsky.social #deathstudies #occulture #occultism

22 Oct 2025 at 8am is the #DeathStudies #Postdoc meetup. Having been handed the reins of online meeting power by @asdsdeath.bsky.social I'll be guest hosting this month. Morning caffeine strongly recommended! register 👉https://deathandsociety.org/postdoctoral-support-group/ #ASDS #Deathies #ECR

An excellent talk by Robert Stephenson.

#deathstudies #thedead

I learned a lot from this talk about the history of necrophilia in art, literature and criminology.

#necrophilia #deathstudies #serialkillers

Cannot wait to attend three events today.

#deathstudies #gothic

A talk on Victorian Mourning at Bankfield Museum, Halifax. #deathstudies #research #c19th #victorian

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