Samuel Holleran
Graduate Researcher, Death Tech Research Team, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
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’
Arts & Culture
How smaller can be better for memorialising history
Major historic events like 9/11 seem to demand monuments, but for many communities, smaller, more intimate memorials can provide a closer connection
Arts & Culture
Dying apart, buried together
COVID-19 exposes some of Western culture’s deepest prejudices around death and human remains, ingrained by hundreds of years of past mass death events