Content warning: topics discussed in this episode include death, deaths during Covid and infant death. Listeners who may be sensitive to these topics, please take note. In this episode we visit South Road Cemetery in Durham with Dr Georgina Robinson. Georgina is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Theology and Religion and Centre for Death-Life Studies at Durham University, with research interests primarily grounded in the interdisciplinary field of death studies. Whilst 80% of British people choose cremation, Georgina has been researching alkaline hydrolysis, also known as water cremation. On our walk through the cemetery which offers traditional burial, cremation and woodland burial we talked about death taboo, death style, water cremation her fascinating work with funeral directors during COVID and the inevitable— emergence of digital death and our online legacy.
Content warning: topics discussed in this episode include death, deaths during Covid and infant death. Listeners who may be sensitive to these topics, please take note.