Japan’s Obon festival: how family commemoration and ancestral worship shapes daily life
Kyoko Murakami, University of Bath Each year in Japan, people celebrate ohigan, a period of seven days around both the vernal and the ...
Culture & Politics
How Psychedelics Can Help Patients Face the End of Life
Psychedelics are helping patients make their final trip out of this world. Find out how psychedelics can help patients face the end of ...
Culture & Politics
Necropolitics and the Erasure of Trans and Non-Binary Bodies in Death
Many trans bodies are ‘lost’ within systems that ignore all aspects of biological sex and gender.
Culture & Politics
Chevra Kadisha and the Ritual Care of the Dead
The Chevra Kadisha performs an invaluable service to their Jewish communities, facilitating the transition of body and soul to the next stage.
Culture & Politics
A Grave of One’s Own: The Body Politics of Green Burial
When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own in 1929, she was advocating for women to have a space to write, a ...
