Text: Over Their Dead Bodies: A Study of Leisure and Spatiality in Cemeteries by Annabel Deering

Guides: Haja & Nick

Place: Trinity Church Cemetery

How do you feel about death? Accepting? Scared? Both? The dead have long exerted a powerful gravity on the living. Death may be the strongest "vibe" of all…

We will be reading excerpts from Annabel Deering's “Over Their Dead Bodies: A Study of Leisure and Spatiality in Cemeteries,” which examines how the living move above the deceased. Deering text casts the cemetery as a liminal space, characterized by an uncanny mix of the pastoral and the infernal.

How do the slippery, hard-to-describe feelings summoned by death channel and color our attention? What kind of a "vibe" is death — and what can that teach us about living?

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