@deathindiaspora.bsky.social

Research on dying and funerals in the diaspora. Working on making funerals more inclusive. Medical anthropology, undertaker, hospice care. Based in Germany.

"Few people like funerals. My father loathed them. Fear can lead some of us to try to hide from death. But being denied the right to attend my father’s cremation showed me how much we need a medium for mourning." @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/8b44...

I was barred from my father’s funeral. It made me rethink grief

Novelist Sofka Zinovieff goes in search of an alternative goodbye

ft.com

Erinnert sich noch jemand ans Sterbegeld? Bis in die späten 1980er wurden von den gesetzlichen Krankenkassen beim Tod 2000 DM ausgezahlt, womit man zumindest eine einfache Beerdigung stemmen konnte. 2004 wurde das Sterbegeld ersatzlos gestrichen.