I thought I knew everything about death. Then grief struck me

John Troyer

I thought I knew everything about death. Then grief struck me

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Abstract

Even though I grew up in Death World, and still live there, it couldn’t prepare me for being my family’s sole survivor

Original language	English
Number of pages	5
Specialist publication	Aeon-Psyche Magazine
Publisher	Aeon Media Group Ltd
Publication status	Published - 16 May 2023

Bibliographical note

John Troyeris the Death Studies Scholar-at-Large and former director of the Centre for Death and Society and associate professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, both at the University of Bath in the UK. He is a co-founder of the Death Reference Desk website, the Future Cemetery project, and the author of Technologies of the Human Corpse (2021).

Keywords

death
dying
Grief
bereavement
funeral

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I thought I knew everything about death. Then grief struck me

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