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This chapter brings death ‘up-close-and-personal’ as it encounters death through individual experiences, personal memories, the loss of meaningful relationships and the importance of objects both physical and virtual to remembering. The conversations in this chapter, examine young-people’s distinctive and sometimes quirky views on and experiences of death and death rituals. The tangible nature and emotional connectedness to the materiality of death is exposed and helps to position no topic as out of reach; even insights into their own deaths. The highly accessible spaces for on-line knowledge and memorialisation are also considered in some detail.
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Coombs, S. (2017). Letting Death Out of the Box. In: Young People's Perspectives on End-of-Life. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53631-6_4
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