This Party's Dead: Author Talk by Erica Buist
Schedule
Sat May 11 2024 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The East Chapel, Cambridge Crematorium | Cambridge, EN
About this Event
By the time Erica Buist’s father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth: everybody dies.
With Mexico’s Day of the Dead festivities as a starting point, Erica decided to confront death head-on by visiting seven death festivals around the world – one for every day they didn’t find Chris. From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and finally Indonesia – with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one – Erica searched for the answers to both fundamental and unexpected questions around death anxiety."
Where is it happening?
The East Chapel, Cambridge Crematorium, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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