All the Living and the Dead

by Hayley Campbell

To me, there was more truth in the photographs of the Ripper victims; no one told me they were

coming back, but school said Jesus did, and would again.

I was taught that death was taboo and something to fear.

Death is everywhere, but it’s veiled, or it’s fiction. Just like in video games, the bodies disappear.

The Western death industry is predicated on the idea that we cannot, or need not, be there.

Bentham was an eccentric philosopher – some of his ideas would land him in prison today, or at least get him thrown off the university campus – but he was ahead of the curve on many things. As well as being a champion of animal rights and women’s rights, he believed in gay rights at a time when homosexuality was illegal, and he was one of the first to donate his body