DEAD AIR #134

‘Death is not a mystery’: what happens to your body when you’re dying? – The Guardian

Was the deceased Sarco euthanasia assistant Willet wrongfully held in custody in Schaffhausen?- NZZ article

This Facility Cremates Bodies With Water (Not Fire) - SBS The Feed - Alluvium Water Cremations in Tasmania.

The Death Dialogues for Pet Loss. Honour your pet’s memory in a warm virtual space for open, thoughtful conversation about loss, love, and connection. Sun, 22 Jun, 9:30-11am AEST. $7 Book HERE

CDAS online conference 2025 Death and Transitions 11 - 13 June. (full $166 half $83). Full program HERE.

NDAN Presents - A Rotten Business: Human Decomposition with Cat Irving, Human Remains Conservator, Surgeons’ Hall London. Fri 13 June 7-9pm AEST. $5 NDAN members/$20 everyone else. Book HERE

The Grieve Project 2025 is a national storytelling project about grief and loss. It is a storytelling competition, anthology, live event, workshops and more. Submissions close 30 June. Info HERE

Fourth International End-of-Life Doula Online Symposium. Sept 5-6, registration opens soon The Good Death Impact Network 

Compassionate Communities Australia National Forum. Tue 9 Sep, 8:30am-5pm AEST, Brisbane. Book HERE

TRACKS: Hit or Miss – Odetta / Drop Out Boogie – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band / To Hell With Good Intentions - McLusky

DEAD AIR #131

Revivification at the Art Gallery of WA is a strange and tender revival of experimental composer Alvin Lucier – ABC News

‘Not a single person shied away’: how a year chronicling end-of-life stories changed one photographer’– The Guardian Julian Kingma ‘The Power of Choice’ book, New South Books AND exhibition, SOL Gallery Fitzroy, opening Wed 21 May 2025, 6-8.30pm (until 1 June).

End of life doulas respond to being excluded from the federal government’s new End of Life Pathway – Lisa Herbert, The Bottom Drawer Book

Grief Garments Do you know someone bereaved by suicide and who might be interested to transforming an item from their persons wardrobe into a Grief Garment in Sydney in August? EOI open until 31 May, applicant form available HERE

PODCAST: Victoria Spence: Death doula and funeral business owner on a mission to bring deaths back to the personal – SBS SEEN with Yumi Stynes.

PODCAST: The Imperfects Podcast Life After Jock with Lauren Zonfillo

CDAS online conference 2025 ‘Death and Transitions’ 11 - 13 June 2025. (full $166 half $83). Full program HERE. FREE sessions: Where do we die? Our preferences for our space of death - Online, book HERE. Fri 13 June, 4-5am AEST! - Ain't got time to die screening followed by a Q&A with Martin Krafft. Book HERE. Also Fri 13 June, 4-5am AEST?

CALL FOR PAPERS: Death Literacy submission deadline: 20 Oct 2025. Guest Editor Dr. Kerrie Noonan, to be published in a Special Collection for Palliative Care & Social Practice, Sage Journals. Submission info HERE.

TRACKS: Two Suns – Ragana / The Surgery – Uboa & Solus Varak / Future Plans - Batpiss

DEAD AIR #98

SBS new podcast: Grave Matters. Episode 1 ‘Dead Curious: How Can We Do Death and Dying Better?’

Alex Antunes ‘Reflections of my Queer Birth/Death Ritual’. Online: Wed 13 March, 7-8.30pm AEST. Book HERE

Webinar MindOUT Series. Tues 26 March, 1pm AEST: ‘Latest Insights into LGBTQI+ Mental Health, Suicide and Self-Harm’. Book HERE

Alternatives to Suicide (Alt2Su) group - A non-clinical, peer group who discuss experiences of suicide, coming together to talk about thoughts, feelings, and actions of suicide without judgment and without the threat of carceral intervention.

Online: Alt2Su Group, Tuesdays 6-7:30pm AEST. LINK

Online: Alt2Su LGBTQI+ Group. Wednesdays 6-7:30pm AEST. Email alt2su.lgbtq@gmail.com for access code. 

End of Season Harvest ‘We're Serious, Let's Play’. Radical Fieldz event, creator/curator Ryan F Kennedy. 11 artists including Hayley West and Martin John Lee from Castlemaine. Sat 16 March 10am-6pm, Lyonbank Farm, 259 Back Glenlyon Rd, Glenlyon. COME ALONG!

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

TRACKS: Uh Oh, Love Comes to Town - Talking Heads / Bad Girls – M.I.A