The Law of the Dead

Law & regulation covering disposal & memorialisation of human remains in England & Wales at @UoYLaw @UniOfYork We are generously sponsored by @nexalaw

[The Law of the Dead @CorpsesCadavers]

A very worthy winner of the inaugural ⁦@UoYLaw⁩ ⁦@CorpsesCadavers⁩ academic prize at #UoYGraduation - Ella Warwick! The prize is kindly sponsored by ⁦@nexalaw⁩

[Bob Hamstead @berk_hamstead]

Every single aspect of trans activism is to detrimental to women.

Charities that campaigned to get men into women's sports should be reimbursing these women.

[📸 MR. HANGING ON IN QUIET DESPERATION... @chrisbu03352910]

#31daysofgraves
Egyptian style tomb : Undercliffe cemetery ...
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[Inconvenient Dead @DedInconvenient]

"New rules for crematoria, drawn up by the UK environment department ... to meet both new pollution standards and the UK’s commitment to reach the target of net zero by 2050 ... by banning gas cremation ovens"
https://t.co/HsYoFWLu8e

[Inconvenient Dead @DedInconvenient]

3rd #31daysofgraves is "tomb",
But when is a tomb, not a tomb - When its been destroyed? These ghosts of tombstones past were part of an art trail in Norwood Cemetery to record the demolition of many memorials

[Fleur Elizabeth @fleurmeston]

Don’t miss the back to school event at the… local funeral director’s?

[Humanist Ceremonies @Ceremonies_UK]

When someone dies, alongside the grief there’s often a wish to remember the happiness they brought in to the lives of others. Funerals can be meaningful and also include moments of joy.

Our blog shares ideas for adding uplifting moments to a funeral.👇
https://t.co/tjWlAVNm7k

[ASDS @asds_death]

"I'm delighted to be taking on the mantle of President of ASDS, an organisation that I have spent many years admiring for its leadership in an interdisciplinary approach to death studies."

Welcome Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce as the new ASDS President! #ddd17 @deathandculture

[OrderoftheGoodDeath @OrderGoodDeath]

You’re probably already familiar with cadaver dogs - canines trained to locate human remains - but did you know they’re now training otters to locate remains underwater? 💀 🦦

https://t.co/5aRf6g5p2u

[Mark Hatton @TheHatton]

A Picture is worth 1,000 words
18thC gravestones use imagery to tell us much more about the deceased that an inscription alone could achieve. Here we are shown the deceased in heaven, above symbols of their faith, their trade & that their masonic status meant the world to them.

[Mark Hatton @TheHatton]

A Glove Maker’s gravestone (dated 1759) showing the tools of their trade, for cutting & shaping leather. In the centre is a set of small bells, used in the annual glovers’ parade. The Glovers Guild had many traditions & rituals. Sadly now all lost in our world of mass production.

[Mark Hatton @TheHatton]

A Mother with 6 of her children. She holds an ornate fabric in front, symbolising the veil between life & death. She is drawing the fabric over them, like we would draw the curtains over a window at the end of the day, or a stage at the end of a play. A deeply moving memorial ❤️

[Mark Hatton @TheHatton]

Just imagine what this small gravestone would have looked like when complete. A skeleton holding a bag of bones. Did it hold a bone in its mouth ?
Now try & imagine why this family chose this design to mark their grave. What are they saying to us here & is it about them or us ?

[OrderoftheGoodDeath @OrderGoodDeath]

When buying a casket, you do NOT have to purchase one from a funeral home. You can use an online retailer, have one custom made, or even make it yourself

https://t.co/nqX0CF4tkD

[Alyson R @londonalyson]

Saw this at Highgate Cemetery on Monday and thought I’d save it for #signagesaturday I particularly like the placement of the toilets above Karl Marx. To be fair they were excellent facilities.

[Inconvenient Dead @DedInconvenient]

An interesting essay on London's #MagnificentSeven cemeteries. Its a "long read" but there's so much, much more that could be said .. https://t.co/OurgxJsFyx

[Bizzarro Bazar @BizzarroBazar]

The Solferino ossuary is a place designed to grant the soldiers who died in war a well-deserved respite, a pax æterna, sadly achieved not in this world but in the next. One of the inscriptions states: "Enemies in battle, brothers in the silence of the tomb they rest."

[BALA @erbmjha]

Life is deeply unpredictable.
Just moments before the Air India Boeing crash, two UK nationals recorded a video, smiling—unaware of what lay ahead.

A haunting reminder: every moment counts. #planecrash