英国巴斯大学16日说，它将开设一门丧葬专业，为葬礼承办者提供学位。这种学位在英国还尚属首例。根据巴斯大学公布的消息，丧葬专业课程涵盖了葬礼服务的方方面面，包括丧葬建议和遗体处理等。

　　组织者说，开设这一专业很有必要，因为传统葬礼正在英国逐渐消失，越来越多的人选择有些离奇的丧葬仪式，例如摩托车柩车，或是把骨灰装在烟花里，放上天空。

　　谈及开设这一课程的社会原因时，英国国家葬礼承办者协会总裁艾伦·斯莱特说：“在一个日益世俗化的社会里，从遗体的处理途径，到怀念死者的方式上，葬礼的方方面面都正在发生改变，变得更像是一种对生命的礼赞。”




University students with an interest in death can now achieve a degree in the subject.

Bath University has announced the launch of an MSc degree course in Death and Society.

The university has the UK's only research centre devoted to the study of death and its place in society.

The post graduate course is aimed at people who wish to work in counselling, health care or pursue a career in the funeral industry.

Dr Glennys Howarth, director of the Centre for Death and Society at the university, denied that there was anything grisly about the course.

She said: "There are many people who work with dying or bereaved people who are interested in exploring the wider issues associated with death, dying and loss.

"The course will appeal to a broad range of people; to professionals in health and social care, counselling, chaplaincy, RE teaching, museums, and the funeral industry, but also anyone who has an interest in the subject and wishes to explore it with leading scholars in the field.

"Since the 1990s, the UK research community has been at the forefront of research in this area, and now produces some of the best research on the social aspects of mortality.

"The people who graduate from the MSc in Death and Society will be well placed to continue this tradition, or bring new levels of understanding to workplaces where death is a common feature."

The course will start in October.

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