The photo that changed it all: a funeral, a pact and an outlandish dress.
08/31/2019 4 Comments
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.
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 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.
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.