Remember Me

Margaret Mitchell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia and Director of the Sellenger Centre for Research in Law, Justice and Policing.  She first became interested in the social context of death while working with Strathclyde Police in Glasgow, Scotland on the aftermath of the Lockerbie Disaster in 1988 and studying its impact on emergency workers and the community.

"The more I got into the books, the more fascinating it became…informative and thought-provoking. The strange quality of the book is summed up for me by the fact that the namesakes of both authors of ‘Dark Tourism’ have death sites that draw visitors many years after their death—Margaret Mitchell and John Lennon. I highly recommend this book, possibly more for those who work existentially, or those prepared to explore ‘outside of the box’." ---Angela Cooper, Psychotherapist

• Acknowledgments. Mitchell, Constructing Immortality: The Role of the Dead in Everyday Life. Howarth, The Rebirth of Death: Continuing Relationships with the Dead. Hockey, Kellaher, Prendergast, Sustaining Kinship: Ritualization and the Disposal of Human Ashes in the United Kingdom. Bourke, “Rachel Comforted”: Spiritualism and the Reconstruction of the Body After Death. Fowler, Collective Memory and Forgetting: Components for a Study of Obituaries. Hughes, Fever. Drake, The Will: Inheritance Distribution and Feuding Families. Allsop, Complaints About Health Care in the United Kingdom Following a Person’s Death. Johnson, Knowing by Heart: Remembering Victims of Intrafamilial Homicide. Herbert, Psychosocial Death Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Sullivan, Should Suicide be Reported in the Media? A Research Note. Breen, O’Connor, Family Disputes, Dysfunction, and Division: Case Studies of Road Traffic Deaths. Lennon, Mitchell, Dark Tourism: The Role of Sites of Death in Tourism. Beloff, Immortality Work: Photographs as Memento Mori. Wyatt, Art as Afterlife: Posthumous Self-presentation by Eminent Painters. Kornell, The Eternal Cadaver: Anatomy and its Representation. Read, Representing Trauma: The Case for Troubling Images.