Meg Cathcart-James

Ecology PhD @readingbiosci exploring urban burial grounds. Undertaker. Taphophile. Gardener. Plants, lichens, soil, invertebrates. #deathpositive ⚰☠🌳🥀🍂🪲🪰

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

Good evening from Brookwood Military Cemetery 🍂🍁

[Genevra Charsley @FlandersBTour]

“Another Life Lost
Hearts Broken For What?”

A parents heartfelt epitaph in search of answers for their loss.

[Simon Bendry @WW1_Education]

Beautiful autumn colours at @CWGC Brookwood Cemetery today! A pleasure to lead a tour there earlier for staff new to the Commission.

[Katrina Spade @KatrinaSpade]

Nbd just LEGALIZED HUMAN COMPOSTING IN CALIFORNIA. https://t.co/UDmnYBhiVF

[Deceased Management Advisory Group @DMAG2020]

DMAG has established that the vast majority of funeral services booked for next Monday (19th) will go ahead if that is the families’ wish, contrary to claims that there would be widespread cancellations.

[Leif Bersweden @LeifBersweden]

Our three commonest heathers here in Britain & Ireland: Ling (Calluna vulgaris), Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix) and Bell Heather (E. cinerea)

[Meg Cathcart-James @MegCJ88]

Earl and Duke again with brand new black feather headdresses, patiently and calmly stood by a busy road waiting for another much loved lady and her many floral tributes. Absolutely nothing fazes them! #funeral

[Meg Cathcart-James @MegCJ88]

Stroked the big soft noses of Earl and Duke last week (these are the names of the horses not the humans) as they waited patiently to bear a much loved lady on her final journey #funeral

[UoR BioSci @ReadingBioSci]

@MegCJ88 chairs the @ReadingBioSci #PhD conference @UniofReading today. #research #student

[Suzie Selenophile @TheCemetress]

🖤🖤🖤
Autumn is definitely here...
#Cemetrees

[The Past Remembered @BarbaraPtquilts]

This #gravestone for young "Mister Christopher" broke my heart. Nice that he is still remembered and cherished after almost 50 years.

[London Month of the Dead @Monthofthedead]

Let's Play Dead. Several of London’s parks and playgrounds were once graveyards. All around the city, behind walls and beyond gateways, hidden under office blocks or tucked beneath car parks, the capital’s dead rest. #skeletonsinthecloset #londonmonthofthedead

[Cat Irving @AnatomicalCat]

This is a display of ‘The Fauna of Corpses’ from 1952. Decomposition attracts insects in a fairly predictable pattern, with some arriving soon after death, and others coming once things have advanced. This case groups them according to when they arrive.

[🪦 Cemetery Walks,Talks, Tours & Haunting History @GraveStories]

These brothers tragically poisoned themselves with medicine from their fathers surgery. Aged 3 & 11 they died one day apart in 1856. This melancholic memorial, depicts two children eternally slumbering beside each other @visitpreston @JulietteGregson @Graves_etc @gardensofsilent

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Recent droughts in Europe once again made visible the "Hunger Stones" in some Czech and German rivers. These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines. This one, in Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: "If you see me, cry"

#archaeohistories

[Cemeteries of Western PA @WestPaCemetery]

An infant grave at Highwood Cemetery. The translation is “she sleeps here,” in Slovak. #cemeteries