In July 2023 I wrote an article exploring why in England we no longer keep the dead body in the home, based off part of my PhD research into the folklore of death and dying in nineteenth-century rural England for the Wellcome Collection. You can read the article here.
Why we no longer keep the dead body in the home
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2 responses to “Why we no longer keep the dead body in the home”
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Thanks for article on dead body at home.
My husband died at home, but to achieve this was a huge struggle with all medical, social work and other people, that is why is mostly doesn’t happen even though most people say they would like to be home.It would be good if there was more open discussion on these matters. Its very strange that childbirth has become much more open to fathers or close partner while death has been taken away from most of us.
Your post which Welcome linked to, could do with quite a lot of expansion and do hope you will do this over time.
People in general seem to have become very frightened by death, which is not a good thing as its going to happen to everyone. Its a hard subject to discuss so good luck with Phd-
Thanks for your comment, sorry to hear about your husband but I’m glad that you managed to have his death at home. I absolutely agree that we have become much more open to ‘natural’ childbirth but still struggle with a more ‘natural’ death at home but hopefully this is changing!
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