As much as we wish it wasn’t, death is part of life. By learning more about it, our mortality and ways to say goodbye, the inevitable becomes less confronting. This blog aims to reveal interesting, informative and sometimes quirky and fascinating facts and thoughts about end of life planning. It’s written by Australian journalist Lisa Herbert, author of The Bottom Drawer Book: The After Death Action Plan.
So put on your hat and some comfy shoes as we explore cemeteries, the world of funerals, death and dying, interesting graves and stories that need to be told.
The workers who collect bodies from hospitals, homes and accident scenes are not receiving coronavirus protections because they’ve been deemed “non-essential” service by the Australian Government.
The share price of Australia’s largest funeral provider has plummeted after the Prime Minister publicly announced funeral attendance restrictions of just 10 people.
A photo of your loved one in their coffin might be confronting for some, but for funeral and end of life photographer Mel Noonan, it’s an important part of their story.
Soon after his death, a plaster cast of Henry Lawson’s face was made. For the past 15 years that death mask has been on display at the State Library of New South Wales.
A sculpture designer’s ashes are in the foundations of his work. After campaigning for the sculpture for 14 years, sadly John Simpson died just one month before the foundations were laid.
The 2009 war death of Private Kevin Elliott and a photograph of his best mate wearing a dress at his funeral has left a lasting legacy.
Convict Richard Mott’s 1882 headstone reveals his crime. The grave sits in Australia’s most southern cemetery, the remote Cockle Creek.
In a shed in north-west Tasmania, Ed is making his own coffin. He joins other like-minded people at the Community Coffin Club every Thursday where companionship and cake meets coffin making.
Funeral trains from Mortuary Station used to carry coffins and mourners from central Sydney to Rookwood cemetery from 1869 to the mid-1900s. Mortuary Station is only remaining example of a Victorian railway funerary station in Australia.
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