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 final moments of our war dead were documented by the extraordinary work of the Australian Red Cross. Among them, Lance Corporal Alex Johnson from Toowoomba.
A review into the treatment of patients Wolston Park Mental Hospital has also explored the missing remains of thousands of patients.
A 92-year-old man has been cremated in Sydney’s first shrouded cremation after a change in legislation.
The grave of Clarissa and Arthur Cornell has been repaired thanks to generous donations to a community project. It, and more than 100 others, were vandalised by two teens.
A woman from Melbourne has become the second person to be frozen and cryonically suspended in Australia.
End of life doulas omitted from the Federal Government’s new End of Life Pathway say its a missed opportunity.
People with less than three months to live will have access to $25,000 in funding to spend on services to help them die at home.
There are some curious traditions surrounding the death of a pope.
My mate had a horse at his funeral. Peter had served in the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry). The riderless horse holds a
