The current exhibition Death: The Human Experience at Bristol Museum presents a fascinating and thought provoking, historic and contemporary look at how cultures ritualise, observe and deal with death. The digital world adds a compelling new dimension to this human experience of death and projects such as locally based Future Cemetery are beginning to open up research and thinking in this area.

Following a screening of Richard Fleischer’s eerily prescient 60s sci-fi classic Soylent Green - about an over-populated, polluted future on the brink of collapse in which a detective (Charlton Heston) attempts to uncover the truth about a mass-produced new foodstuff - a panel including Lisa Graves, Bristol Museum Curator, and Dr John Troyer, Director of the Centre for Death and Society at University of Bath, will take part in a discussion about the film and the current thinking about the future of death and the dead body.

Watch a video about the Future Cemetery project from REACT (those clever people behind The Rooms festival!):

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