Death. We all do it, but most of us don't like to talk about it. How do we use ritual—from burying people twice, to eating one’s in-laws—to help cope with the pain of loss, and the inevitability of death? And what can we learn from studying how people in other cultures ritualise death and dying? This talk covers Naomi Westerman’s years working as a death anthropologist, covering diverse death rituals past and present, from the double burial practice in rural China, and mortuary endo-cannibalism in the Amazon jungle, to Mexico's Day of the Dead, Irish wakes and Jewish shiva ceremonies.