Funerals
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
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
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
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
Arts & Culture
Podcast
The stuff of death and the death of stuff
Cultural anthropologist Dr Hannah Gould researches death and discarding – looking at spirituality and how COVID-19 is changing the way we deal with the dead
Arts & Culture
Bringing new life to cemeteries
Australians are embracing new ways of commemorating the dead, including eco-friendly burials, raising new questions about how communities make use of traditional cemeteries