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Carmen Terceiro visiting her father’s grave with her 8-year-old Jack Russell, Milo.

The Sydneysiders hoping death won’t part them from their pets

A NSW law has changed to clarify the remains of deceased companion animals – often much-loved family members – may be buried with their late humans.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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Gordi, aka Sophie Payten,

She’s seen the chaos of life and the quiet of death. Gordi won’t stand still

Being surrounded by tragedy has taught the singer-songwriter about life’s fragility and transience. In the face of grief, she’s firmly an optimist – and one who embraces turmoil.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Damir Dokic watches his daughter play at Wimbledon in 2000.

Jelena Dokic reveals ‘difficult and complicated grief’ after father’s death

The former tennis player confirmed her father had died on Friday.

  • Alexander Darling
Jessica Rain Jones and her mother Jennie Jones. Jessica was an indigenous woman who died while at St Vincent’s mental health unit.

‘They took my child from me’: Families call for change after Indigenous suicides in same hospital

After the suicides of two young Indigenous women in a Melbourne mental health ward, the women’s parents are demanding answers and justice.

  • Erin Pearson
We tend to hold the view that certain members of society are with us for life.

‘The shock is startling’: Grieving the death of my GP

They’re not family, but they’re familiar – and it’s those who serve our communities whose loss can cut deeply.

  • Jonathan Seidler
Danielle and Steven Iskander still wonder if the care they received at Northern Hospital had have been different their firstborn child Mia might still be alive.

Baby Mia lived for only eight hours. Her parents still wonder if hospital staff could have saved her

Danielle and Stephen Iskander left Northern Hospital without their first child, who died after unreasonable delays in performing an emergency caesarean.

  • Melissa Cunningham
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Travis Hamilton’s dad, Alan, wanted to be buried at sea.

‘Put me in the ocean’: Alan Hamilton wanted to be buried at sea, but it’s a rare and challenging feat

The car enthusiast didn’t like cemeteries or the idea of cremation, so he was slipped into the Southern Ocean off Portland.

  • Carolyn Webb
Alan Hamilton was laid to rest not in the ground but in the ocean, 120km off Portland, Victoria, last month. Supplied by Candour Funerals/Filmed and edited by Michael J Lutman
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Final farewell: Rare sea burial carried out for Melbourne man

Alan Hamilton was laid to rest not in the ground but in the ocean, 120km off Portland, Victoria, last month. Supplied by Candour Funerals/Filmed and edited by Michael J Lutman

Sione Polhill and Bella Garner have travelled from Hay, NSW, to participate in a swimming carnival in Sydney.

The free public pool Jack built to stop ‘haunting’ fears of parents

Hay, population 3000, is bucking the trend of declining swimming carnivals with a large carnival and two weeks of swimming lessons for every primary student. Using its 50-metre pool is free.

  • Julie Power
Deborah Frances-White hosts the global hit podcast, The Guilty Feminist.

You’d be shocked by how much my siblings and I laughed when our father died

Never underestimate the power of comedy to make a statement.

  • Deborah Frances-White

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