Samuel Holleran

Graduate Researcher, Death Tech Research Team, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

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Arts & Culture

How popular culture helps with the business of death

The staging of the musical ‘Fun Home’ in Melbourne is part of a broader embrace of issues around how we deal with death

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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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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

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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

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