John Troyer

Dr John Troyer is the Director of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. He is a co-founder of the Death Reference Desk website, the Future Cemetery Project and a frequent commentator for the BBC. His new book Technologies of the Human Corpse was published by The MIT Press on April 28, 2020. He grew up in the American funeral industry.

John Troyer | "Death is part of life, and there is a lot we can learn from it"

There are moments when disease and political protest suddenly make dead bodies far more visible, here are five lessons they can teach us.