Dr Hannah Harewood Gould

COVID-19 exposes some of Western culture’s deepest prejudices around death and human remains, ingrained by hundreds of years of past mass death events

Cultural anthropologist Dr Hannah Gould researches death and discarding – looking at spirituality and how COVID-19 is changing the way we deal with the dead

Australians are embracing new ways of commemorating the dead, including eco-friendly burials, raising new questions about how communities make use of traditional cemeteries

From wrapping presents to decorating a tree, some of the traditions many of us associate with Christmas get their own cultural spin in different countries around the world

From algorithms that post tweets for us after we die to bequeathing a digital legacy to our families – death is being disrupted by technology