Meg Cathcart-James

Good evening from Brookwood Military Cemetery 🍂🍁

“Another Life Lost Hearts Broken For What?” A parents heartfelt epitaph in search of answers for their loss.

Beautiful autumn colours at @CWGC Brookwood Cemetery today! A pleasure to lead a tour there earlier for staff new to the Commission.

Nbd just LEGALIZED HUMAN COMPOSTING IN CALIFORNIA. recompose.life

DMAG has established that the vast majority of funeral services booked for next Monday (19th) will go ahead if that is the families’ wish, contrary to claims that there would be widespread cancellations.

Our three commonest heathers here in Britain & Ireland: Ling (Calluna vulgaris), Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix) and Bell Heather (E. cinerea)

Earl and Duke again with brand new black feather headdresses, patiently and calmly stood by a busy road waiting for another much loved lady and her many floral tributes. Absolutely nothing fazes them! #funeral

Stroked the big soft noses of Earl and Duke last week (these are the names of the horses not the humans) as they waited patiently to bear a much loved lady on her final journey #funeral

@MegCJ88 chairs the @ReadingBioSci #PhD conference @UniofReading today. #research #student

🖤🖤🖤 Autumn is definitely here... #Cemetrees

This #gravestone for young "Mister Christopher" broke my heart. Nice that he is still remembered and cherished after almost 50 years.

Let's Play Dead. Several of London’s parks and playgrounds were once graveyards. All around the city, behind walls and beyond gateways, hidden under office blocks or tucked beneath car parks, the capital’s dead rest. #skeletonsinthecloset #londonmonthofthedead

This is a display of ‘The Fauna of Corpses’ from 1952. Decomposition attracts insects in a fairly predictable pattern, with some arriving soon after death, and others coming once things have advanced. This case groups them according to when they arrive.

These brothers tragically poisoned themselves with medicine from their fathers surgery. Aged 3 & 11 they died one day apart in 1856. This melancholic memorial, depicts two children eternally slumbering beside each other @visitpreston @JulietteGregson @Graves_etc @gardensofsilent

Recent droughts in Europe once again made visible the "Hunger Stones" in some Czech and German rivers. These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines. This one, in Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: "If you see me, cry" #archaeohistories