We analyze funeral arrangements following the deaths of 3,751 people who died between January 2003 and December 2005 in the Africa Centre Demographic Surveillance Area. We find that, on average, households spend the equivalent of a year's income for an adult's funeral, measured at median per capita African (Black) income. Approximately one-quarter of all individuals had some form of insurance, ...

Despite growing awareness of our environmental footprint in life, the ecological impact death is rarely considered. Yet conventional funeral practices pose a risk to both human and health by polluting earth contributing climate change, thus calling for more sustainable methods body disposal. Although various eco-funeral options have been gaining momentum United States, they not yet adopted into...

Funerals have long been of interest to social scientists. Previous sociological work has examined the relationship between individuality, belief and tradition within funeral services, founded on assumption that public rituals psycho-social benefit for organisers attendees. With introduction direct cremation UK, impact COVID-19 pandemic service attendance in 2020 2021, critique this is now neede...

We analyze funeral arrangements following the deaths of 3,751 people who died between January 2003 and December 2005 in the Africa Centre Demographic Surveillance Area. We find that, on average, households spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult's funeral, measured at median per capita African (Black) income. Approximately one-quarter of all individuals had some form of insurance, ...

This article empirically analyzes the effects of terrorism on the electoral choices of the Turkish voters in the 1991 and 1995 general elections. It relies on a unique data set that includes the date and the place of burial of Turkish soldiers and police officers who died in the fight against the terrorist organization PKK. I employ the number of these security force terror casualties at the di...