ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how the mediation and remediation impact on and/or are influenced by practices concerning death and private and public rituals of death and dying. It demonstrate the relational aspects of this topic and how it can be seen as acts of communication between different actors in various ways and with various proximities: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many; face-to-face or through various communicational devices, with the use of media of various degrees, modes and dimensions. What sociologist Tony Walter describes in the quote is that death and our ways of dealing with it as individuals, groups, communities and societies are of a relational matter. As a theoretical framework, mediatization theory has contributed with ways of revisiting and reconsidering questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society especially when it comes to analysing and discussing how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other cultural field.
