Contemporary practice: United Kingdom

Turner, N. and Caswell, G. 2020

‘A relative absence: exploring professional experiences of funerals without mourners’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 85:4, 868-886.

Woodthorpe, K. 2017

‘Family and funerals: taking a relational perspective’, Death Studies, 41:9, 592-601.

Woodthorpe, K. & Rumble, H. 2016

‘Funerals and families: locating death as a relational issue’, The British Journal of Sociology, 67:2, 242-259.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract