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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 2d

This looks amazing 🤩

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 2d

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The cow with ear tag #1389

I have been vegetarian since I was a teenager. For a while I still ate organic meat, but as this is still part of the same meat industry, I quit this at some point as well. My blind spot to this day, ...

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Diana Teggi @dianateggi.bsky.social · 23d

🚨🚨🚨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 [email protected]. We're looking forward to reading them!

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Christopher P. Hood @hoodcp.bsky.social · Aug 29

Enjoying a cup of tea from my new mug

@deathstudiespod.bsky.social
#DDD17

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CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Aug 16

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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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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Aug 7

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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Additional events | DDD17 Conference: The Politics of Death

Alongside stimulating panel discussions and plenary sessions, conference participants are invited to take part in additional events, including our Death Book Club and optional excursions in Utrecht an...

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Jul 3

Unexpected item in an army surplus shop in Finland #RoyalMail

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Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social · Jun 27

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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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…

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

#catsky

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Dr. Terri Daniel on toxic theology, healthy theology, complicated grief, being a non-religious chaplain, hospice and loss

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · May 23

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

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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...

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The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social · May 28

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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Screenshot of the article Death is not the end

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · May 7

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

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · May 7

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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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · May 2

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.

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

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · May 3

A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi

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."

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Apr 30

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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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Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #SciComms #Skystorian @chendirl.bsky.social · Apr 29

#WHAI2025 REGISTRATION OPEN 👉 BOOK NOW 👉 tinyurl.com/2jnkuw4s 👇 Conf site QR Code 👇 Brilliant program made possible by our brilliant ⭐ #skystorians @whaireland.bsky.social #WomensHist #History #GenderHist #RevolutionaryHist #IrishResearch #Speirgorm #HealthHist #Carlow #Ireland

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Apr 29

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

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Apr 23

What a lovely gesture 🥰📚

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Apr 23

Another #buyastrangerabook day offer!

@annacatsimp.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

Blurb in second pic.

If you'd like a copy, get in touch!

UK only.

Blurb for Demon Copperhead.

Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.

In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn't an idea, it's as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn't an abstraction, it's neighbours, parents, and friends. 'Family' could mean love, or reluctant foster care.

For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he's willing to travel to try and get there. Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Apr 23

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 💙📚

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

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Apr 21

@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.

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…

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