WHAT EVER A Transdisciplinary Journal of Theories and Studies Qu eer whatever.cirque.unipi.it A.L. Kristinnsdottir, B. Haber, D.J. Sander, K. Nowaczyk-Basińska, S.M. Ramírez Rodríguez, A. Brainer, H. Newman What do we talk about when we talk about queer death? 6/ New perspectives in queer death studies Abstract: Tis is part 6 of 6 of the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. Te contributions collected in this article seek to open new frontiers in queer death studies from the most diverse perspectives, from death positivity to psychedelics, from digital death to extreme embalming, from ethnography to philosophy. Te present article includes the following contributions: – Kristinnsdotir A.L., Death positivity: a practice of queer death; – Haber B. and Sander D.J., Death is a trip; – Nowaczyk-Basińska K., Qeer (digital) death?; – Ramírez Rodríguez S.M., colony and the “velorio insólito:” contesting conventional death practices in puerto rico through extreme embalming; – Brainer A., Caring for queer bodies and spirits in and afer death: research notes from Taiwan; – Newman H., Notes on living afer death: a queer pitch for philosophy. Keywords: Death Studies, Qeer Studies, Ethnography, Hallucinogens, Death Positive Move- ment. Death positivity: a practice of qeer death Te human lot is to be mortal. Like all things, we are stamped with expiry, motivating us to seek ways in which to put it of. Creams, surgeries, diets: all are measures taken to defer the inevitable, the impossible–the end of the self. So concerned are humans with our need to remain conscious and doing that we seek to colonize other planets, upload our consciousness, freeze our bodies in the faint hope that someday, someone might revive us (More 2013; O’Connell 2017). So, in many ways, even talking about death is queer. Not as in an individual marker of identity, but as in engaging in “unsetling (subverting, exceeding) binaries and given norms and norma- tivities” (Radomska, Mehrabi & Lykke 2019: 6). Death is a truly unsetling phenomenon in the modern Western imagination–as explored for example by Philippe Ariès’ Te Hour of Our Death (1991), Tomas Laqueur’s Te Whatever, 4 2021: 713-740 | CC 4.0 BY NC-SA doi 10.13131/2611-657X.whatever.v4i1.153