John Troyer

Death Studies Scholar-at-Large, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK

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John Troyer is the Death Studies Scholar-at-Large and former Director of the Centre for Death and Society 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 (MIT Press, 2020).

Written by John Troyer

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DEATH AND DYING

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

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

by John Troyer