Searching for gold, laid to rest under tin: a prospecting history captured in WA’s remote Menzies cemetery.
04/28/2018 5 Comments
The graves at the remote Australian outback cemetery at Menzies tell a tale of gold rush hardship.
By learning more about death, our mortality, and ways to say goodbye, the inevitable becomes less confronting. Written by Australian journalist Lisa Herbert, this blog aims to reveal interesting, informative, and sometimes fascinating facts and thoughts about end-of-life planning.
So put on some comfy shoes as we explore cemeteries, the world of funerals, and death and dying.
The graves at the remote Australian outback cemetery at Menzies tell a tale of gold rush hardship.
The remains of thousands of patients were exhumed from the Brisbane Mental Hospital in the 1940s, but there are no official records showing their whereabouts.
South African doctor Alastair McAlpine asked some of his terminal paediatric palliative care patients what they had enjoyed in life, and what gave it meaning.
A damning allegation thrust Queensland’s funeral industry and lack of regulation into the spotlight and reaffirmed the general population’s scepticism about an industry often thought of, rightly or wrongly, as deceitful and manipulative
With a name like GilGraves and a label that reads ‘life is not a dress rehearsal’, this wine is certainly not made from sour grapes.
A tomb in Hobart’s first cemetery reveals the sad story of the Kelly children – one killed by a whale, one drowned, four died before their first birthdays, and one died aged 14.
Eddie Mason spends his spare time fixing old, broken headstones in country NSW cemeteries.
While sea burials in most of Australia require depths of 3,000 metres, the Northern Territory’s sea burial site is in a popular fishing area and at just 60 metres deep.
Dealing with a death in the family is hard. Trying to make sense of Queensland’s death-care and funeral rules and regulations is pretty difficult too because it’s all a bit of a confusing mess.