For years no-one spoke about it, but now death is an openly accepted part of life.
The changing faces of death and how ways of acknowledging it are beginning to be reinvented will be examined in a public lecture at the University of Bath on Wednesday 11 November.
Professor Malcolm Johnson, a Visiting Professor and senior research fellow at the University’s Centre for Death and Society, will talk about how ways of managing the end of the life are designed for the young and middle aged and how different it is to die in old age.
He said: “There is little understanding of the changing experience of dying and death, when 80 per cent of all deaths are of older people. Death has moved into the province of old age.”
Professor Johnson is a social scientist and Professor of Health and Social policy at the University of Bristol.
He is best known as a gerontologist and has written and lectured around the world on issues of ageing, the lifespan and the end of life.
Professor Johnson’s lecture is part of the General University Lecture Programme.
Other lectures in the current series include:
- Airfields: a phenomenon of the 20th century – Bob Clarke, 4 November
- Lady Miller of Batheaston (1741-1781) – Martin Sturge, 18 November
All lectures are free and open to the public. They start at 5:15pm and will be held in Lecture Theatre 8 West 1.1 at the Claverton campus, parking is available in the west car park.
For more information go to the GULP website or call Helen Redfern on 01225 386587.