DEAD AIR #104

I'll be back Monday 3rd June 2024, stay well!

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

‘An American journalist read her own obituary online, and soon discovered the strange world of obit pirates’ – ABC News

‘When natural burial doesn’t meet the needs of mourners’ – The Bottom Drawer Book

SPECIAL GUEST Samantha Rennie. Art of Grieving Workshop, Community House Castlemaine BOOK HERE Three sessions: Sat 11 May, 9.30am-4pm + Wed 15 May, 7-9.30pm + Wed 22 May, 7-9.30pm

Online talk: Traditions in Death and Burial, Dr Helen Frisby – Presented by NDAN BOOK HERE. Thurs 6 June, 9am AEST.

Online talk: Grieving Lahaina: Past and Present. Presented by The Collective for Radical Death Studies BOOK HERE. Sat 11 May, 7am AEST.

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

TRACKS: Bakirköy Havsi – Zen / Are You Dead – Rainbows are Free / Obur Dünya – Cem Karaca, Mogollar

DEAD AIR #81

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

The Age - ‘I am the final ingredient’: Artist creates the work she will be buried in. Artist Helen Bodycomb

YouTube Taboo Education episode ‘Modern Day Corpse Theft’

First Peoples – State Relations. Vic Fact sheet: Aboriginal burials

A near death experience on TikTok

Barb Ferguson Death Doula workshop, Sat 30 Sept 23, 10am - 4pm, Shepparton, $180.00. e: doulabarb60@gmail.com m: 0419545093

TRACKS: Opa-Loka – Hawkwind / I Am Pentagon – The Make-Up / Vitamin C - CAN

DEAD AIR #64

'Is There Sex After Death?' by Colin Campbell

'Sex after Loss' by Shelby Forsythia

Coming Back Podcast

ABC News Hobart 'Phil Laing is one of five Tasmanians who have died through accessing voluntary assisted dying'

ABC Radio QLD - 'Dying on Rose's terms'

Grief Line - support in Australia

Voluntary Assisted Dying information, Victoria

End of Earthly Life Matters Day seminar, Muckleford - Pippa White, Melinda Whyman, Cheryl Nekvapil - 9am-5pm, Sat. 24th June - rgeccmelbourne@gmail.com / pippajj11@gmail.com

GRAVE AFFAIRS - Goldfields Gothic Festival. Short talks and panel discussion. Sat 5th Aug 2:30pm, Maldon

Queer Death Cafe Zoom with Hini Hanara & Alex Antunes and @deathcatforcrochet, Mon 1st May, 7-9pm

TRACK: Burn Us Clean - DEAD

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)