Last resting places?

recreational spaces or thanatourism attractions — the future of historic cemeteries and churchyards in Europe

Tony Seaton

Magda North

Gabriela Gajda

pp. 71-95

in: Sean Gammon, Sam Elkington (eds), Landscapes of leisure, Berlin, Springer, 2015

Abstract

The late Benny Hill, one of Britain's most successful comedians, was probably the only performer to make jokes about cemeteries. "Why?' he once asked, with an expression of innocent bemusement, "do they put walls around cemeteries? There's nobody outside who wants to get in; and nobody on the inside who's going to get out!'