More Aussie deaths this winter to boost Invocare’s profits
May 14, 2019 1 Comment
Australia’s largest funeral provider has today told shareholders that things are looking up in 2019.
Yay, the flu!
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.
Australia’s largest funeral provider has today told shareholders that things are looking up in 2019.
Yay, the flu!
Lisa Herbert visited her local Mosque to learn about Islamic funeral rituals. She got quite a surprise when she got there!
With rare iron headstones and footstones, Old Uralla Cemetery is more than just the resting place of bushranger Captain Thunderbolt.
Sea shells, flowers, animals, urns, hands, letters, crosses and a myriad of symbols decorate graves across Australia. But what are they and what do they mean?
What happens to your Facebook page when you die? Facebook has just added the ability to post tributes on a memorialised page.
Green or natural burials are the next big thing. Or are they? No headstones, no coffins, no chemicals, no pomp. It looks like lots of people aren’t convinced.
World first technology tells the story of the dead. A small disk on a grave can deliver information about the deceased, share photos and video, music and documents via a Bluetooth connection to a world first App.
Ever wondered how coffins are lowered into the ground?
There was a huge turn out for the funeral of murdered Darwin taxi driver George Grantham. In April 1952 he was shot by two Czech immigrants who became the last men hanged in the NT.
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