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Outlook: Learning about life by studying the bones of the dead

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Alex Hagerty

21/03/2023 GMT

Learning about life by studying the bones of the dead

BBC World Service - Outlook, Learning about life by studying the bones of the dead

Alexa Hagerty helped uncover mass graves of the 'disappeared' in Guatemala and Argentina

Alexa Hagerty has been to some of the bleakest spots of humanity, the mass graves of 'disappeared' people in Guatemala and Argentina.

When Alexa Hagerty was a teenager she had a brush with death, but it was only after her father died that she began to study end of life practices and care. Her research took her into funeral rites and rituals, and then into forensic exhumations and finally into the mass graves of 'disappeared' people in Guatemala and Argentina. It was there that she learned to study human remains in order to document, identify and ultimately seek justice for the dead. She spoke to Outlook's India Rakusen.

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Presenter: India Rakusen 
Producer: Andrea Kennedy 

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(Photo: Alexa Hagerty working. Credit: Courtesy of Alexa Hagerty)

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