design week

DEAD AIR #130 by The Departure

‘My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph’ – The Guardian

BOOK: Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death - Booktopia

Article: What Do Animals Know About Death? - NYTimes

Pope Francis’ Funeral, a Visual Guide – BBC News & on ABC IView

TED MED Talk: A burial practice that nourishes the planet, Caitlin Doughty

Pre-VAD & Post-VAD Support Groups – Dying with Dignity

Design + Death Beyond the Grave, Open House Melbourne and Design Week Melbourne. Four events over 15-25 May.

Call for Abstracts: Young children’s perspectives on (multispecies) death and dying. Due 15 May, e: deathandchildren@gmail.com Submission info HERE

Call for papers: The Journal of Disappearance Studies, first issue. Info e: jds-editorial@bristol.ac.uk Info HERE

Research Degree Opportunity: Do-It-Yourself Commemoration of the Dead with DeathTech team at Uni of Melb. Full-funded PhD scholarship, e: nansenb@unimelb.edu.au EOIs due 31 May. Info HERE

Subscribe to CDAS newsletter - e: cdas@bath.ac.uk

REMINDERS: TONIGHT – NDAN Panel discussion on Limited Tenure Burial, Mon 28 April, 6pm AEST, online. Book HERE TOMORROW – Info session on hosting a Dying To Know Day event, Tues 29 April, 1-1:45pm AEST, online. Register HERE SATURDAY - Northern Arts Hotel Castlemaine, Sat 3 May, 11am-1pm. Details HERE

 TRACKS: Dying – XTC / Choc-A-Bloc – Anika / Can’t Say No – Beasts of Bourbon

DEAD AIR #103 by The Departure

DEAD AIR is sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk.  

Miscarriage Information Support Service MISS

I had a miscarriage. Why can't we talk about losing a baby? – The Guardian (video)

Time Immemorial at Bunurong Memorial Park. Part of the Six Feet Under – Design & Death weekend. [11am Memorialisation and Miscarriage panel conversation - with me:)]

BOOK: Briefly, Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur

Going with Grace - website + PBS interview

When children are disappeared from Death by Bec Lyons

PODCAST: SBS Grave Matters. Good Grief: The Importance of Rituals for Healing After Loss 

The Nature Connection Project - contribute stories (even death-related ones!)

The 7th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network. University of Helsinki, Finland 3-5 October 2024. Abstracts due 26 April.

Death as Protest – A Short History Talk Death Daily Insta

Free Palestine Rally every Sunday 12pm Jarra/Victory Park, Castlemaine. Insta: @freepalestinecentralvic

TRACKS: Si ma chanson pouvait – Valerie Lagrange / R Die Glatze – Klaus Beyer