it just sounds a bit morbid.

它只是聽起來有點病態。

This is a piece of my grandmother that I keep with me all the time.

這是我祖母的作品，我一直帶在身邊。

Over the past decade or so, ashes creations have started to appear.

在過去十年左右，骨灰的創作開始出現。

I look at it and I just remember all the good times we had.

我看著它，我只是記得我們所有的美好時光。

In Classical Greece and Rome,

在古典希臘和羅馬。

you had both burial and cremation practices taking place.

你有土葬和火葬的做法。

Of course in other parts of the world, traditional aspects

當然，在世界其他地區，傳統方面

in Buddhism - again cremation.

在佛教中--又是火葬。

Of course the Jews, never cremation, burial normative. Islam, burial.

當然，猶太人，從不火化，埋葬規範。伊斯蘭教，埋葬。

But of course, long before this India was a cremation culture.

但當然，早在這之前，印度就是一種火葬文化。

And once Christianity became established in the UK...

而當基督教在英國建立以後，火葬是被禁止的...

...and that continued really until the mid-19th Century

...這種情況實際上一直持續到19世紀中期

when, with industrialisation and the rise of big towns, big cities,

當，隨著工業化和大城鎮的崛起，大城市。

church yards got full fast.

教堂的院子很快就滿了。

The miasmas, the gases that were rising from putrefied bodies

瘴氣，從腐爛的屍體中升起的氣體

were considered to be very unhealthy.

被認為是非常不健康的。

The Cremation Society was founded in 1874 by Sir Henry Thompson

火葬協會於1874年由亨利-湯普森爵士創立。

who was a celebrated surgeon.

他是一位著名的外科醫生。

And he was joined by a number of free thinkers who were drawn

而與他一起被吸引過來的還有一些自由思想家們。

from the realms of medicine, science and the arts.

來自醫學、科學和藝術的領域。

Price was really a very flamboyant character.

普萊斯真的是一個非常浮誇的人物。

A Welsh nationalist, and self-appointed Archdruid of Wales.

一個威爾士民族主義者，自稱是威爾士的大德魯伊。

Price was arrested, and sent to trial at Cardiff assizes

普萊斯被逮捕，並在卡迪夫巡迴審判中被送去受審。

where Judge Stephen ruled that cremation was not illegal,

在那裡，斯蒂芬法官裁定火化並不違法。

providing it didn't cause any public nuisance.

只要它不造成任何公害。

So in 1902...

所以在1902年...

So by the time we get into the 1940s and 50s,

是以，當我們進入1940年代和50年代時。

something really interesting was happening.

真正有趣的事情正在發生。

You were having women dying

你有婦女死亡

who no longer had a husband's grave that they had to go into.

他們不再有必須進入的丈夫的墳墓。

So the issue of choice that cremation was now, as it were, on the cards

是以，選擇火葬的問題現在，就像它一樣，常會發生。

and a possibility, and so about the middle of the 1960s,

和一種可能性，是以大約在60年代中期。

that Britain flips from being burial majority to cremation majority.

英國從埋葬的大多數翻轉到火葬的大多數。

It's really extraordinary that the percentage of deaths that resulted

真的很不尋常，導致死亡的百分比

in cremation in 1939 stood at 3.5%.

1939年的火化率為3.5%。

And now of course the cremation rate in the UK stands at nearly 80%.

當然，現在英國的火化率也達到了近80%。

From something like the mid-1970s, the British started doing something

從1970年代中期開始，英國人開始做一些事情

which many people on the continent to this day find weird.

直到今天，非洲大陸上的許多人都覺得很奇怪。

They started taking cremated remains away from the crematorium

他們開始將火化的遺體從火葬場運走

and doing their own thing with them.

並用它們做自己的事情。

Just seems weird to call it an urn to me.

只是在我看來，把它稱為骨灰盒似乎很奇怪。

I like to think of it as a piece of art

我喜歡把它看成是一件藝術品

that just happens to have my mum and dad inside it.

恰好裡面有我的媽媽和爸爸。

This is a piece of my grandmother, my memorial jewellery

這是我祖母的作品，我的紀念性珠寶

that I keep with me all the time.

我一直帶著的。

All ashes creations are about keeping our loved ones close.

所有的骨灰創作都是為了將我們的親人留在身邊。

Any memorial is for the people left behind.

任何紀念活動都是為了留下的人。

It's never for the person,

它從來都不是為人服務的。

it's for us to carry on with that memorial.

是由我們來繼續紀念的。

It's allowed the dead to become part of the furniture of our life.

它允許死者成為我們生活傢俱的一部分。

My ashes creation is a tattoo

我的骨灰創作是一個紋身

and in it includes the ashes

並在其中包括灰燼

of my late partner who passed away two and a half years ago.

我已故的夥伴在兩年半前去世了。

A small number of people choose to have ashes mixed into tattoo ink.

有一小部分人選擇將骨灰混入紋身墨水。

He was my friend and I also got a tattoo.

他是我的朋友，我也紋了一個紋身。

And their bodies are literally mingled together.

而他們的身體實際上是混在一起的。

As chair of The Cremation Society, I will naturally choose to be cremated.

作為火葬協會的主席，我自然會選擇火化。

I think my daughter will have me incorporated into a vinyl record

我想我的女兒會把我納入黑膠唱片中。

because I love music, maybe something by the Beastie Boys.

因為我喜歡音樂，也許是野獸派男孩的東西。

I do not belong to the tattoo generation.

我不屬於紋身的一代。

I don't think there's enough room in there to fit me in with them.

我不認為那裡有足夠的空間來容納我和他們在一起。