ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationship between loss and consolation and how overlapping experience of both can be apprehended and better understood through attention to these being embedded in the intersecting spatialities of material places, embodied experiences and virtual arenas, as represented in the 'Mapping Grief and Consolation' framework. It reviews discourses of consolation found in international studies of deceased organ donation. The chapter explores expressions and accounts of loss and consolation through the lens of a case study of a local organ donation activist group, highlighting the co-constitutive roles of physical memorial garden, embodied emotional-affective experience and social media platforms. It explores the discourses of grief-consolation in relation to deceased organ donation, a process which is typically associated with premature death. Consolation for the bereaved is often associated with the comfort derived from faith and associated ritual, and of cherished memories.
