Professor Tamara Kohn

DeathTech Research Group; Professor, Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

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Arts & Culture

Remembering and forgetting the dead

Ancient Celtic Halloween – or All Hallow’s Eve – was a day to acknowledge the dead. Modern rituals of marking death continue this tradition, both remembering and letting go

Politics & Society

We need to rethink how we manage deathcare

Australia’s deathcare system is already showing cracks, but the pressures will only worsen, especially as the baby boomer generation takes us into ‘peak death’

Politics & Society

Podcast

Your online life after death

From algorithms that post tweets for us after we die to bequeathing a digital legacy to our families – death is being disrupted by technology

Politics & Society

Want to live forever? Here’s how

‘Communicating’ with the dead is closer than you might think, thanks to our online footprints