Conclusion

The (hitherto) burgeoning academic discipline of event management developed from and feeds into a vibrant global industry, employing millions of people around the world (Eventbrite, 2018). As events management has professionalised, different sectors of this diverse industry explore interconnections between practice and theory. This book focuses on the sociological, cultural and anthropological perspectives of funerals as events. Yet there also exist events management and practitioner perspectives, not only from within the traditional funeral industry, but also from more diverse celebrations and memorials of death in contemporary practice, as well as historically. Despite the wide variety of events studied or addressed by event scholars and event managers, very few consider death from a perspective of event studies or events management. But death is the one event that none of us can evade. Death is articulated through the events that surround it, through ways in which the end of life is marked (whether that be the life of an individual, a group, or a community), and through evental structures across and between diverse cultural, ideological and societal contexts. There are considerable faith and non-faith practicalities to attend to in the highly stage-managed events of commemoration or memorialisation, from a state funeral or a day of remembrance, to the loss of someone personally close to us.

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