DEAD AIR #62

‘I paid tribute to my nan by singing at her funeral’ SBS News, published 27 March 2023 by Claudia Weiskopf.

‘Human composting is being legalised in some places overseas – should we be considering it Australia?’ Conversation hour, ABC Radio, broadcast 24 March 2023.

‘Why Melbourne's booming west will be home to Victoria's biggest new cemetery in a century’ ABC News, by Margaret Paul, 16 March 2023.

La Corbicyclette (Bicycle hearse) designed by Isabelle Plumereau from Le Ciel & La Terre Funerals, Paris.

‘The Latest In Green Funerals: A Bicycle Hearse’ by Abby Stutsman, 26 Nov. 2022.

CDAS conference schedule announced, 5-7 May 2023.

TRACKS: In Between – K5 / Born in the Heat – CIVIC / Bitch – Future Suck / Polished Rings – The Faculty / To Hell with Poverty – Gang of Four

DEAD AIR #61

Call for papers 'Mortality: Innovation at the end of life' commemorating the 20th anniversary of CDAS in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. Abstracts due 22 May 2023

The 6th International Symposium of the Death Online Research Network UK May-2 June, 2023. Early bird tickets close 31 March 2023.

Death the Last Taboo - Australian Museum online resource, read from Preparation for Death: Stories

NDAN presents: Technologies of the Human Corpse online with John Troyer, 2 April 2023

'Final Journey, The Use of Trains as Funeral Transport' online 29 March 2023

'Parramatta Eels fan chooses themed coffin as personalised burial trend grows' ABC NEWS

TRACKS: Malabadi Köprüsü–Selçuk Alagõz / Revolve–Melvins / By The Graveside–K15 / Are You Dead–Rainbows Are Free / Everybody Dies–Billie Eilish

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)