I’m John Troyer. I grew up in the American Funeral industry, and focus on the interdisciplinary study of death, dying and dead bodies. I also run the Death Reference Desk which scours the web and beyond for All Things Death: from recommended books to commentary and analysis of death in the news. The COVID pandemic brought significant death and dying issues into everyday conversation and the pandemic also highlighted just how unprepared we are to manage the logistics of death.

In 2022 MIT Press published my book, “Technologies of the Human Corpse,” which examines the relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from 19th-century embalming machines and photography, to the AIDS Epidemic of the 1980s and today’s radical life extension tools.

I’m here from 2-3pm BST to field any questions you may have about death — good death, bad death, sad or nuanced death, culturally- and politically-charged death. Anything goes. Let’s talk death.

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