This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement.

Materialising Absence;  J.Hockey, C.Komaromy &  K.Woodthorpe Never Say Die: CPR in Hospital Space;  S.Page Making Hospice Space;  K.Worpole Dying Spaces in Dying Places: Care Homes for Older Adults;  C.Komaromy The Materialities of Absence after Stillbirth: Historical Perspectives;  J.Bleyen Distributed Personhood and the Transformation of Agency: An Anthropological Perspective on Inquests;  S.Langer Behind Closed Doors? Corpses and Mourners in American and British Funeral Premises;  S.Harper Private Grief in Public Spaces: Interpreting Memorialisation in the Contemporary Cemetery;  K.Woodthorpe Wandering Lines and Cul-de-sacs: Trajectories of Ashes in the United Kingdom;  L.Kellaher, J.Hockey  & D.Prendergast Natural Burial: The De-materialising of Death?; A.Clayden, J.Hockey &  M.Powell What Will the Neighbours Say? Reactions to Field and Garden Burial;  T.Walter  & C.Gittings Memorialising the Suicide Victim: 'Walking the Walk';  C.Simone Potent Reminders: An Examination of Responses to Roadside Memorials in Ireland;  U.MacConville  & R.McQuillan Geographies of the Spirit World;  D.Davies Recovering Presence;  J.Hockey, C.Komaromy &  K.Woodthorpe

JAN BLEYEN is an assistant at the research unit, Modernity and Society 1800-2000 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium ANDY CLAYDEN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield, UK DOUGLAS J. DAVIES is Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham University, UK and Director of The Durham Centre for Death and Life Studies CLARE GITTINGS works at the National Portrait Gallery, UK SHEILA HARPER is a post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sydney, Australia LEONIE KELLAHER is Emeritus Professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK SUSANNE LANGER is a Research Associate at the Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, UK UNA MACCONVILLE is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK REGINA MCQUILLAN is a Palliative Medicine Consultant working at St. Francis Hospice, and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Republic of Ireland SUSIE PAGE works freelance, lecturing at both Oxford and Greenwich Universities, UK MARK POWELL is Research Associate at Durham University, UK DAVID PRENDERGAST is a Social Anthropologist in the Digital Health group at Intel and a Principal Investigator of the Social Connection Strand of the Dublin based Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre, UK CAROLINE SIMONE is Joint Honours Subject Leader of Applied Studies, University of Derby, UK TONY WALTER runs the MSc in Death& Society at the University of Bath, UK KATE WOODTHORPE is Lecturer in Sociology at the Centre for Death and Society in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath, UK KEN WORPOLE is Senior Professor in The Cities Institute at London Metropolitan University, UK