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DEAD AIR #133 by The Departure

Mother’s GoFundMe to have son’s body cryogenically frozen - 7News

Interview with a mortician, Are you Dying to Know? - YouTube

New law in NSW for joint burial of companion animals and owners – Emma Hurst MP

Would you use a death doula? A University of Adelaide research project, contribute HERE

Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas – Market Stalls

Break the Mould with Anwyn, podcast with me Hayley West!

Grief Garments EOI extended to 14 June, for Sydney people, info HERE

EOI is open to participate in The Wall of Death small work exhibition at Merchants of Mostyn opening 31 Oct, email for more info: admin@merchantsofmostyn.com.au

TRACKS: Diamond Dancer – Bill Callahan / Something on your mind – Karen Dalton

DEAD AIR #132 by The Departure

Notes from the Open House Melbourne, Design + Death Beyond the Grave Memorialisation Symposium yesterday at the Shrine of Remembrance.

The truth about scattering cremated remains: why ashes don’t return to the earth naturallyThe Modern Mortician

I’ve studied the history of death. I know how we can better face up to our grief – and our own mortalityThe Guardian BOOK: No Ordinary Deaths – A People’s History of Mortality, by Molly Conisbee Booktopia.

Funeral Foods From Around the WorldYou Tube Mourning in the early 19th century: making funerals biscuitsYouTube

The next ELM Peer Support Group meeting for those affected by suicide loss will be held tonight: Mon 26 May, 6-7:30pm at The Castlemaine Safe Space. Monthly meetings on the final Monday of each month. Info: 0404 468 534 e: theelmpsg@gmail.com

Dhelkaya Health invites family members, friends, staff and the wider community to our Annual Memorial Service to remember and give thanks for the lives of patients, residents and clients of Dhelkaya Health who died between 1 Dec 2023 - 30 Nov 2024. The service will be held in the auditorium at Dhelkaya Health's Castlemaine campus tomorrow, Tues 27 May. Arrive at 6.30pm for a 7pm. More info: 5471 3542.

Grief and Creative Practice with Chloe Coelho, presented by AHFA. Wed 28 May, 7-8.30pm AEST. Register HERE.

Departures and Dissolution – a meditation on death & dying. Free 3-hour experiential workshop with John Bradley, engaging Buddhist philosophy and coming to terms with death as essential lo living life fully. Sun 29 Jun, 4:45-8pm AEST. Hosted by The MIECAT Institute Inc Fitzroy. Book HERE. Mandala, Dancing in the Bardo exhibition - VIMEO

TRACKS: Opa-Loka – Hawkwind / Begger’s Need – electric citizen

DEAD AIR #131 by The Departure

Revivification at the Art Gallery of WA is a strange and tender revival of experimental composer Alvin LucierABC 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 personalSBS 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