Hungry Ghost Month: living alongside the dead

Hungry Ghost Month: living alongside the dead

An introduction to the Chinese festival Hungry Ghost Month. Death is universal, but the ways we think about it are certainly not. Some cultures prefer to keep it at arm’s length, hidden in quiet wakes and hushed whispers. Others invite it into everyday life through...
Death dealers: The growing trade in human remains

Death dealers: The growing trade in human remains

Social media is helping drive the sale of skulls, bones and modified human remains, as experts warn legal loopholes leave much of the UK market beyond regulation. A bag of bones sat on a market stall in Liverpool, priced between £50 and £100. Not replicas. Not props....
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