"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.
Vocabulary:
- lucrative - producing a large amount of money; making a large profit
Had the plan worked it would have proved highly lucrative.
Cemetries are a lucrative investment opportunity.
- mausoleum - a special building made to hold the dead body of an important person or the dead bodies of a family
Wealthy families often have mausoleums on their properties.
My grandma was burried in our family mausoleum.
- ludicrous - unreasonable; that you cannot take seriously
It was ludicrous to think that the plan could succeed.
He is paid a ludicrous amount of money.
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