‘We all loved your daddy’:In a country town everyone knows when your father dies

‘We all loved your daddy’:In a country town everyone knows when your father dies

After dad passed away,I discovered more about the man I’d always loved and admired.

  • byMichelle Brasier

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I’m glad you’ve come to my funeral. I’ve got a few things to tell you
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I’m glad you’ve come to my funeral. I’ve got a few things to tell you

Thanks to a local entrepreneur,you can now do your own version of the Pauline Hanson video:“Fellow Australians,if you are seeing this now,it means I have been murdered.”

  • byDoug Hendrie
Perth families denied burial plots seek ‘compassionate’ way forward

Perth families denied burial plots seek ‘compassionate’ way forward

After closing a cemetery,a Perth metropolitan council has advised widows they can no longer be buried in the lots they bought beside their husbands.

  • byGary Adshead
‘I help people depart this world with love’:The women taking the fear out of death

‘I help people depart this world with love’:The women taking the fear out of death

Would you like to attend your own funeral or be transformed into a sapphire ring? These three women are changing the dialogue around dying.

  • byDilvin Yasa
Why a silent prayer at the grave of someone I never met was so exquisitely meaningful
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Why a silent prayer at the grave of someone I never met was so exquisitely meaningful

Our commemorations for the dead take us inevitably into the extraordinary and unknowable.

  • byJane E Sullivan
I thought I knew what grief was but now realise I had no idea
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Opinion

I thought I knew what grief was but now realise I had no idea

It’s been five months since my dad passed away. Let me correct myself:It’s been five months since my dad died. I have to use that word – died – because my brain still refuses to believe it.

  • byRuby Kraner-Tucci
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Spend on the champagne,not the coffin:How Aussie death rituals are changing

Spend on the champagne,not the coffin:How Aussie death rituals are changing

From living wakes to young adult death cafes,the nature of funerals and how we grieve is shifting in Australia.

  • byLauren Ironmonger
‘Mummy,when will you die?’ How I talk to my children about death

‘Mummy,when will you die?’ How I talk to my children about death

Since losing my brother,I’ve had to have conversations I was totally unprepared for. Here’s the expert advice that has helped.

  • byBella Brennan
‘To a certain extent,I’ve been in denial’:Ray Martin on life’s great mystery

‘To a certain extent,I’ve been in denial’:Ray Martin on life’s great mystery

He climbed to the pinnacle of Australian TV journalism. What challenge was left? The ultimate one.

  • byTim Elliott
Death and taxes are inevitable. Here’s how retirees can minimise the latter

Death and taxes are inevitable. Here’s how retirees can minimise the latter

If couples and families don’t put proper preparations in place,serious financial problems can emerge when a loved one dies.

  • byNoel Whittaker
My mother’s anxieties about something happening were always there. Now I know why

My mother’s anxieties about something happening were always there. Now I know why

A tragic accident would shape my mother’s life – and impact my own a generation later.

  • byAlice Robinson