DEAD AIR #56 by The Departure

Packed with Love’ – condolence and memorial seeds, based in Bendigo.

DEDTalks – Sat. 5 August. Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas. Submissions by 17 Feb, 5pm.

NDAN talk – Revisiting Resomation (Alkaline Hydrolysis, Australia & NZ). Saturday 11th February 2023 9AM AEST (Zoom)

Remembrance Parks – Adornment Policy furore Latest News

PETITION: “Save our right to personalise our loved one's final resting place

Families upset about crackdown on grave decorations’ ABC Radio - Jan 19

PROTEST Tuesday Jan 31: Eaglehawk Cemetery.

Remembrance Parks Central Victoria under fire for gravesite decoration crackdown’ ABC Central Victoria - Jan 31

Eaglehawk Cemetery chair breaks her silence over removal of items from graves’ ABC Radio Central Victoria - Feb 2

Remembrance Parks Central Victoria CEO stood down over gravesite decoration removals’ - Feb 3

Cemetery agency CEO stood down amid protests over treatment of grave sites’ A Current Affair Channel 9 - Feb 3

TRACK: You’re No Good - ESG

DEAD AIR #55 by The Departure

Hearse driving course IFISS

Institute of Palliative Medicine, Kozhihode India 17-19 Feb. 2023, Curios Global Competition – Submissions due 12 Feb.

'Digital Necromancy: Users’ Perceptions of Digital Afterlife' Tues 28th Feb 2023, 7-8 PM GMT

The Death Positive Library UK

BOOK: ‘The Sustainable Dead: Searching for the Intolerable’ edited by Ruth McManus

‘Accounting for Death: an historical perspective’ [Necroaccountability] Call for papers due 15 Sept. 2023.

Who will get rid of your sex toys when you die? And where do you dispose of them?

TRACKS: The Sinking Bell (Blue Sheep) - Boris & sunn O))) / Omens and Portents 1: The Driver - Earth

DEAD AIR #54 by The Departure

BOOKS:

‘The Lottery’ Shirley Jackson, 1948 [from ‘Shirley Jackson, The Lottery and Other Stories’ Penguin Classics, USA 2009]

‘Monster, She Wrote – The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction’ Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson, Quirk Books USA 2019.

PODCASTS:

‘Goodnight Lovelies’ (Memento Mori meditation ) & ‘The Adventures of Memento Mori: A Skeptic's Guide for Learning to Live by Remembering to Die’ - Remember to Die D.S Moss

Family forced to put funeral on hold’ - Midland Express 20/01/2023

TRACKS: Boghz – King Woman / Delusion – Stonefield / Sore Afraid - Woorms