Heritage of Death
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Excavations that took place within the 19thand 20th-century cemetery of Assistens Kirkegård in Copenhagen created a new and more tangible, but also more uncomfortable aspect to the study of modern death. Almost 1000 coffins and urns, dating between the 1800s-1990s, were excavated, recorded and then reburied in new graves in the cemetery. Death in modern cemeteries is normally successfully concealed; the dead body and coffin is de-materialised and replaced with gravestones and memories. Digging up the cemetery generated a new physical sense of that concealed material. This paper discusses the idea that by disturbing bodies that are too close to our present we touched upon transgressive social, but not legal, boundaries which resulted in highlighting some of the inconsistencies that underpin our attitudes to the heritage of death.
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