Digital Immortality? AI and the Future of Death
We exist in a time where we can create online memorials, hold a virtual memorial service, and even send digital messages after we ...
Culture & Politics
“Talk to Me, Goose”: Top Gun, Grief, and Toxic Masculinity
The environment of toxic masculinity cultivated in the TOPGUN program disenfranchises and suffocates Maverick’s grief.
Culture & Politics
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.