DEAD AIR #90

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

‘Understanding Funeral Culture in the Romany Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Communities’. Taboo Education YouTube Channel.

Books: ‘Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History’ Mandy Sayer. - ‘Gypsies, Roma and Travellers: A Contemporary Analysis’ Declan Henry

‘Burial Beads: A South Korean Tradition’ The Living Urn

Online: ‘Last Christmas: The Story of Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus, and Christmas Past with Eric Huang’ Morbid Anatomy Museum.

Book: ‘The Little Book of Humanist Funerals. Remembering and celebrating a life’ by Andrew Copson & Alice Roberts.

Call for proposals for Special Issue: ‘Relational Approaches to Conceptualising, Measuring and Enacting Wellbeing and Care in Palliative and End of Life Contexts.’ Abstracts due: 13 Feb 2024

Online Talk: ‘Memorialising Gendered Violence in Public Space’ Margaret Gibson, Griffith University, 20 Feb 2024, 11 am- 12 pm. REGISTER HERE

CDAS subscribe to their newsletter email: cdas@bath.ac.uk

Free download: The Student Grief Zine

Australian Home Funeral Alliance blog. Submit your written work, email: hello@ahfa.org.au

Video: ‘Death exciting & new!’ John Troyer & Caitlin Doughty in conversation.

Exhibition: ‘Barriletes de Nuestro Futuro (Kites from Our Future)’ by artist Juan Rodriguez Sandoval, at Incinerator Gallery. 1 Dec 2023 - 21 Jan 2024. Kite-making workshop, Thur 18 Jan 11 am-2 pm.

Free Palestine Rally every Sunday. This Sun 24 Dec, 12 pm. Flying white kites at Jarra/Victory Park, Castlemaine Insta: @freepalestinecentralvic

TRACKS: Egyptian Kings – Brainticket / Strawberry – Moses Gunn Collective

DEAD AIR #60

Cotard’s Syndrome (walking corpse syndrome) ‘The (Real) Delusion That You're a Corpse’ Ask a Mortician episode.

Ernest Becker, Terror Management Theory, and Death Acceptance: An Online Symposium Celebrating 50 Years of The Denial of Death - Online, Sun. 21 May 5-8am AEST (Mon. 20 May 2-5pm NYC EST)

Barb Ferguson, Living and Dying Well workshop, Ballan, Sat. 25 March, M: 0419545093 E: doulabarb60@gmail.com

Arranging a Home Funeral with Hini Hanara and Alex Antunes – Online, Wed. 5 April 7-8pm

Annie Fogarty, death and grief care circle. Melbourne Allied & Complimentary Health Practitioner Circle, Kangaroo Ground - Thu. 20 April, 7-10pm

‘The Good Death Through Time’ by Caitlin Mahar

Caitlin Mahar on the Drum, ABC iView (available 28 March)

TRACKS: Opium Den – The Neptune Power Federation (Sydney) / The Son of God – Romano Vervoso (Belgium) / The Sleeper – Albatross Overdrive (USA) / Bliss and the Abyss - Bagful of Bees (Spain) / Social Construct – ATOMMASHER (Melbourne) / In Leather – Babymachine (Wollongong)

DEAD AIR #51

Tips for dying at home and family-led funerals in Victoria. - The Australian Home Funeral Alliance - https://www.ahfa.org.au/victoria

‘Augmented cemetery tours and smart graves – grieving spaces go digital’ - ABC radio, by Erica Vowles https://tinyurl.com/3u2knz2x

‘How do I handle the death of my secret lover?’ - The Guardian, by Philippa Perry https://tinyurl.com/yc3kvxes

Some ideas about how to honour your dead at Christmas - Tender Funerals Western Sydney https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084988561120

TRACKS: K5- In Between / Brickhead – Party / Katarina – Evil People / Our Carlson - Hyperbolic Paraboloid

DEAD AIR #50

‘Dying to Ask’ Heathcote Community House, Tues 13 December 2022, 10.30am-Noon

Gothic Networks - Webs, Traps and Global Trends conference #GANZA23 Online 24th-25th of January 2023 9.30am AWST. Hosted by Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) & Curtin University, tickets: https://tinyurl.com/y73j7knj

Eulogy by Aaron Freeman.

Why don't we allow ourselves to grieve pets the same way we do people? ABC Kia Handley https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/newcastle-hunter-catch-up/pet-grief/101656784

TRACKS: Lungs On Fire – WITCHSNAKE / Immortality Roars – Rudra / (Here Comes The) Arrows of Fortune - Emily Robb / Troubled – Outright / The New Sensation - IDLES

DEAD AIR #49

The discussion in today’s episode includes - Body disposal methods in Australia (earth, air, water, fire). What is a home funeral? What is a death doula? What are your options? Natural Death Advocacy Network

Call for Papers for the CDAS Conference 2023: ‘Innovation at the end of life’ is now open.

New items at the Order of the Good Death online shop.

TRACKS: Lipstick & Leather – Blonde Revolver / Beauty Queen – DOWNGIRL / Peter Brock Built My Hotrod – Grindhouse / Fast Love – C.O.F.F.I.N / Red Ruby – Blonde Revolver / Got You – Amyl and the Sniffers