Woodvale one of the biggest and oldest crematoriums in Brighton, I got a break from my work and went to the have a tour around the grounds. I saw the very respectful war memorials, and some very interesting graves. I got to see the stone masons in action, they do the names on the stones and even designs of your choice. Church itself is massive!! They had an interactive coffin drawing task for visitors and I drew some sunflowers, my fav flowers. I sat in on a talk run by a lecturer who spoke about victorian grieving and I actually used this information in a future essay I wrote in my Exploring Death and Dying class.

But the most interesting had to be cremation process, that I saw behind the scenes of and where all the dead bodies get cremated at. With real bodily metals that they have collected from recently deceased patients. I give some more exploration of this in the video. I found it really interesting how the entire human body is burned into ash but some liquid parts are left in blue barrels and a mysterious company comes and collects it, but we have no idea where these body barrels go??? crazy right! I even went afterwards for a nighttime swim and the ocean was really warm and had some fun times on the pier!

Song: Dark Music - Cemetery.