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    • 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

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    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’

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    Politics & Society

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    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

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    Politics & Society

    Want to live forever? Here’s how

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

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