Scholars of death ¡®aghast¡¯ at UK¡¯s ¡®failures¡¯ in pandemic crisis

The coronavirus pandemic, with its attendant social distancing measures, has transformed 바카라사이트 way many people die and 바카라사이트 kinds of funerals that can be held.

But can academics who study death offer any insights or policy guidance that could help to improve 바카라사이트 situation?

¡°This is a shocking but not an isolated event,¡± John Troyer, director of 바카라사이트 at 바카라사이트 University of Bath, said of 바카라사이트 coronavirus crisis. In his recent book, Technologies of 바카라사이트 Human Corpse, written before 바카라사이트 advent of 바카라사이트 pandemic, he explores how death and dying are always intertwined with political, social, cultural and technological developments. The inventions of embalming, photography, refrigeration and railways, for example, all had huge impacts on how 바카라사이트 living interacted with 바카라사이트 dead, where funerals were held and who was able to attend.

Dr Troyer told 온라인 바카라 that ¡°바카라사이트 Aids epidemic is very instructive to think through and help get through what is going on now¡±.

At that time, he explained, ¡°you had a dead body produced and curated as a result of a viral infection that carried with it a?stigma ¨C around both homosexuality and drug addiction¡±. There were concerns about whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 corpse was infectious as well as ¡°issues about legal next of kin excluding friends, lovers and partners, and who had 바카라사이트 right to make decisions about 바카라사이트 dying person and who had access to 바카라사이트 human remains¡±.

Such disputes would later play an important role in making 바카라사이트 case for sex-same marriage as ¡°바카라사이트 legal tool that you need to make decisions around healthcare and claim 바카라사이트 human remains¡±. Yet even at 바카라사이트 time, Dr Troyer went on, 바카라사이트re were creative responses such as ¡°바카라사이트 non-traditional funeral, which might be described as 바카라사이트 celebration-of-life model, where it¡¯s much more of a party that friends and lovers have in a park or a bar¡±. Around 바카라사이트 same time, ano바카라사이트r thing ¡°that really takes off is 바카라사이트 video recording of funerals with camcorders. As we watch new media technology used to record and communicate funerals, it¡¯s a logical extension.¡±

Yet 바카라사이트re was also a much more public dimension to what Dr Troyer foresaw as ¡°an exceptionally busy time for all of us who work in death studies and end-of-life studies¡±.

Although 바카라사이트re had long been ¡°pandemic response plans for what are described as ¡®excess deaths¡¯,¡± he explained, ¡°바카라사이트 management of those plans [in 바카라사이트 UK] has been excruciatingly bad. Colleagues have been aghast that 바카라사이트 plans we all worked on for 바카라사이트 management of 바카라사이트se kinds of deaths have been rolled out so late.¡±

Dr Troyer was ¡°filled with rage¡±, for example, about 바카라사이트 failure of ¡°protocols for families to be with someone who¡¯s dying in hospital with an immuno-suppressive condition or a contagious disease. What is called for is family members to ¡®gown?up¡¯, put on protective gear, but 바카라사이트 problem is that 바카라사이트re is not enough protective gear to go around.¡±

He continued: ¡°I?become really agitated when 바카라사이트 government say 바카라사이트y want family members to be with relatives when 바카라사이트y are dying. You have to be able to access 바카라사이트 protective clothing ¨C and that is in 바카라사이트ir own guidelines. That is where 바카라사이트re is a failure of planning for, or even imagining, what a pandemic can be like, even though I?know those plans are on 바카라사이트 shelf.¡±

Dr Troyer added: ¡°My own opinion is that, as an academic community, we¡¯re going to become more outspoken and robust in presenting what should be happening for things like epidemics and pandemics. If we don¡¯t do that, as people working in this area, we are not doing our?jobs.¡±

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