Dead Good Reading

🚨🚨🚨The CfP for the 2025 BSA #Death, #Dying and #Bereavement symposium is now open! This year's theme is #Care and #Caring, and the University of Nottingham is hosting us. Please submit your abstracts by Tuesday 30th September to bsaddb@gmail.com. We're looking forward to reading them!

Enjoying a cup of tea from my new mug

@deathstudiespod.bsky.social
#DDD17

Behind the scenes of the @asdsdeath.bsky.social awards ceremony this afternoon at @ddd17-2025.bsky.social

Congratulations to all!

A special well done to CDAS members @drrenskevisser.bsky.social and Bethan Michael-Fox for being nominated for their awesome @deathstudiespod.bsky.social

Dr. Kaylee Alexander - The Death Studies Podcast What’s the episode about? In this episode, hear Kaylee Alexander discuss the digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture, cemeteries, French cemetery laws, cemetery sculpture, ...

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Are you attending @ddd17-2025.bsky.social? I will be hosting a book club session with Ashes to Admin author @christinamartin.bsky.social

Do join us if you can!

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A red Royal Mail jacket

Unexpected item in an army surplus shop in Finland #RoyalMail

CDAS Conference 2025: Death and transitions By Inka Laisi, doctoral researcher Small Matters, University of Oulu In this blog I reflect on my attendance at the CDAS (Centre for Death and Society) conference, located at the University of Bath…

Small Matters doctoral researcher Inka Laisi wrote some reflections on this year’s @cendeathsociety.bsky.social conference on Death and Transitions ⬇️

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The most handsome tabby cat

I might be biased, but isn’t this the most handsomest cat?!

#catsky

Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chaplain, hospice and loss The Death Studies Podcast · Episode

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#podsky

Limited Edition Mug - The Death Studies Podcast's Ko-fi Shop Pre-order this fabulous pink and white Death Studies Podcast mug now! Elevate your hot beverage drinking experience by sipping out of this cup. To...

DDD attendees! Have you ordered our special Death Studies mug yet? @ddd17-2025.bsky.social @asdsdeath.bsky.social

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Screenshot of the article Death is not the end

Congrats Prof Claire Nally on the publication of the article Death is not the End, and thank you for the lovely mention of the podcast and our book chapter on @salenagodden.bsky.social Mrs Death Misses death 💙📚

Article available open access here:

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The book Legacy, with a blue cover with a colourful stethoscope resting against a tree stump surrounded by dirt and tree branches

New blog! Legacy by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social is a powerful anger and thought-provoking memoir that outlines the ongoing and pervasive racism present in healthcare, and how skin colour affects health outcomes and life expectancy.

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deadgoodreading.com/legacy/

The book Legacy, with a blue cover with a colourful stethoscope resting against a tree stump surrounded by dirt and tree branches

New blog! Legacy by @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social is a powerful anger and thought-provoking memoir that outlines the ongoing and pervasive racism present in healthcare, and how skin colour affects health outcomes and life expectancy.

💙📚

deadgoodreading.com/legacy/

Two hands open the swiveling cover of a Fisk cast iron coffin.

F is for Fisk is one of the entries, beautifully illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social, from my book A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, defining and explaining some basic terms of Victorian death culture, using 19th c. primary sources, anecdotes, and even jokes. Available worldwide.

Panel One: A scientist is giving a lecture. she stands at a lecturn. The current slide shows a list of the five kingdoms of living things: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera. She says "Most people assume that fungi are plants. Whereas in fact, they form a kingdom of their own." Panbel Two: Caption : After the lecture The scientist now appears to be in a subterranean cave, before her stand two very large mushrooms guarding a larger, beardedmushroom who sits in athrone wearing a crown. One of the mushrooms says "His majesty is very pleased with the work you are doing."

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

The Library Book It is only suiting that my copy of The Library Book by Susan Orlean is indeed a library book. I remember going to libraries from a very young age. A particularly vivid memory library-memory is not ins...

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The Library Book, with a lovely blue and gold cover, nestled on top of a rotting tree (it looks nicer than my description abilities)

In the Library Book by @susanorlean.bsky.social I may have found my favourite phrase to describe someone has died. In Senegal they say “someones library has burned”, and I think that’s beautiful.

Full blog here:
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What a lovely gesture 🥰📚

A copy of Death and Institutions photographed in my garden on a bed of moss and twiggs

The book opened on the page that starts my chapter entitled Institutional thoughtlessness : prison as a place for dying

Book mail is the best mail!

A copy of the edited collection Death & Institutions, including my chapter Institutional Thoughtlessness: prison as a place for dying landed in my mailbox

Thanks to the editors for inviting me to contribute! @cendeathsociety.bsky.social 💙📚

The colourful book the Great Dead Body Teacher resting on a tree trunk

The Great Dead Body Teachers by Jackie Dent is a fascinating account on full body donation, human anatomy and the history and ethics of dissection 💙📚

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Of Malady and Mortality: Five Books to Read When Your Spouse Is Diagnosed with Cancer When my wife was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, I instinctively reached for books. Not medical tomes or statistical survival guides—though I eventually read those too—but books that could…

@arielgore.bsky.social recommends five books to read when your spouse is diagnosed with cancer, including work by Audre Lorde, Barbara Ehrenreich, Teva Harrison, and more.

The Great Dead Body Teachers Jackie Dent very kindly sent me a copy of The Great Dead Body Teachers, all the way from Down Under. Two of her grandparents, Ruby and Julie, donated their bodies to science when they died. This book ...

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The book the Great Dead Body Teachers resting on a tree trunk

🐣New blog 🐣

🪺 Happy Easter🪺

The Great Dead Body Teachers by Jackie Dent delves into the world of body donation, dissection and teaching human anatomy 💙📚

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Best Book of the Century is high praise!

Amazing! Did you write about that adventure?

The Library book by Susan Orlean pictured in bed. My cat sits on the top left of the bed.

Starting Easter Sunday with a book about books, as the rain pours down outside- what is everyone else reading? 💙📚

Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display The book about the trial of William Corder, publicly executed and dissected after being convicted of murdering his lover, is bound using his skin

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