ReadyCONNECT - you can participate in the quiz and learning about your own death literacy. https://readyconnect.org/quiz Want to know more? - email Kerrie k.noonan@latrobe.edu.au Download the 2026 National Death Literacy and Readiness Report: https://readyconnect.org/report
Reaching - Orchids, addicts, mystics and wings - Death & Birds, Chloe Hope
BOOK: Too Poor to Die, The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins, by: Amy Shea
BOOK: Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt, The Mourning Rite in the Times of the Pharaohs By: Maria Rosa Valdesogo
The Centre for Open Thanatology Conference 21 Oct 2026, 7:30pm - 12 midnight AEDT (22 Oct 9.30am–2pm UK time). Open to everyone – interested members of the public, practitioners, academic and community researchers, students, and service providers. Registration is open now until October 20th (although it may close early if the tickets sell out). Online ticket 10pounds/$20 AUD, BOOK HERE
The Ethics Centre presents: The Ethics of Immortality - We've spent our whole history assuming that death is inevitable. What if it isn't? Wed 4 Nov in person and online, 6:30pm – 7:30pm AEDT Livestream $17.
ONLINE: AHFA and Queer as Death Collective (Naarm) Presents - ‘A Joyous Death’ with Alex Antunes. Sharing a documentary 'HARD/SOFT/STICKY WET: A Joyous Death' (2025) documenting the Corpse Couture event. Mon 19 Oct, 7-8.30pm AEDT Book HERE
A weekend immersion into shrouding and weaving hosted by master weaver of 30+ years Zimmi Forest from NSW and facilitated by local, independent death worker Hayley West of The Departure. Together, we will weave a shroud carrier and/or a coffin out of the invasive Cats Claw vine. An opportunity to learn and share curiosities and questions around the practice of shrouding and open up conversations anything death, dying and grieving. All materials and morning teas are provided. Book via Humantix, search for 'Coffin Weaving Castlemaine' or contact Hayley directly at hello@thedeparture.com.au Sat 10 Oct, 9:30am – 4pm & Sun 11 Oct, 10am-3.30pm. Venue: The Old Gaol, Castlemaine. Book HERE