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    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jul 11, 2019
    • 8 min

    In defence of buying a human skeleton

    It isn’t about owning a skeleton. It is about access. It is about trust. It is about our shared humanity. It’s about communion with our mortality. I made a decision when I was 13 that means some people think I should not be allowed to handle a skeleton now. At that young age, a bunny-hugging, anti-vivisection, vegetarian, I refused to study GCSE biology because of the compulsory murder and dissection of healthy mice. That decision closed off entire avenues of study to me, whi
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    Timeline of death (in art)
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jul 26, 2017
    • 2 min

    Timeline of death (in art)

    After the wonderful, lovely, joyful, belly laughs of the Death and the Maiden conference, I have been resting. I did present the full Marathon scale of Progressive Acceptability, and did throw sweets to the audience to make the point stick. I also ran out of time; in my rehearsals I made allowances for throwing, but not the catching of sweets, or the distraction of seeing someone spot an unclaimed starburst on the floor, and slowly slinking out of their chair to get it unob
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    The Marathon scale of progressive acceptability
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jul 15, 2017
    • 2 min

    The Marathon scale of progressive acceptability

    Sorry I've been so quiet recently. I had a long rest after Dying for Life, then a push to write up the final bits for my photography degree and Arts Council grant. And now I'm converting some of my dissertation (and yes, that's a link to my actual dissertation - if you fancy a read) into a 20 minute whirlwind tour of death in visual art in the past 1000 years for the Death and the Maiden conference. I am currently wrangling with quite how much I should venture my personal the
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