What Happens When a City Runs Out of Room for Its Dead | Alison Killing | TED Talks

“If you want to go out and start your own cemetery“ in the UK, says Alison Killing, “you kind of can.“ She thinks a lot about where we die and are buried — and in this talk, the architect and TED Fellow offers an eye-opening economic and social perspective on an overlooked feature of our towns and cities: the cemetery. Speaking specifically to UK laws, she unpacks the fascinating, sometimes funny, often contradictory laws about where you can be buried. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks an