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Matt Mountain said he misses his mother, Rachael Dixon, every day.

‘Be careful’: Family’s warning before mother died after drinking magic mushroom tea

The partner and son of 53-year-old Rachael Dixon have spoken out, a year after she died after drinking mushroom tea at a health retreat.

  • Alexis Daish and Cassandra Morgan

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ASIC chair Joe Longo at an Autralian Institute of Company Directors’ conference this month after announcing the regulator was suing AustralianSuper.

Grieving Australians are suffering because of super fund failure: ASIC

The corporate watchdog has blasted top superannuation executives for failing to prioritise grieving families when paying out their members’ death benefits.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Naureen Choudhry and her father Jamil Choudhry hold hands.

Ramadan is a time to find peace and solace. For Naureen it has been so much more this year

Ramadan is a time for Muslims to reflect. When it coincides with personal grief, it can also become a channel for healing.

  • Naureen Choudhry
Bound together: Kathryn Joy, Rebecca Burdon and Beverley Attard spent years searching for people with shared experience after their mothers were killed.

Years after their mothers were killed, these child survivors finally found each other

Trauma and tragedy linked these children who lost their mothers to domestic violence. They had to fight to find each other as adults.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Paracetamol overuse can be fatal.

Paul was in agony from paracetamol overuse. Health professionals ‘didn’t listen’, then he died

Paul McHugh diligently took the medication his pharmacy packed for him. Months later, he was dead.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Rob Luscombe, President of peak body the Cemeteries and Crematoria Association of Victoria.

High-density burials, shallower graves proposed in cemetery rules revamp

Allowing more family members to be buried in the same plot, and empowering officials to remove excessive graveside decorations are among key changes in a cemeteries shake-up.

  • Rachael Dexter
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Richard Castles and his wife, Emma, in February 2024, two months before she died suddenly.

My wife died suddenly aged 54. The next night she spoke to me in a dream

“Emma’s gone”, I texted one of my closest friends. To the shops? To another country? To another man? I clarified after he responded with confusion.

  • Richard Castles

‘Will I have mattered?’ What legacy means for the child-free

We are in the midst of the greatest intergenerational wealth transfer ever. But for those without children, deciding where their money should go is a complex affair.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Beyond the Grave examines everything from people planning their own funerals to how cemeteries are designed. Tania Davlidge, executive director and curator of Open House, and Bjorn Nansen, University of Melbourne professor, specialist in digital death commemoration.

Designer deaths: From ocean paddles to sneakily scattered ashes, we’re doing things differently

Funeral at the pub? Sure. A digital avatar to remind loved ones about you? Why not. Death may be a constant, but our approach to it is changing dramatically.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas unveiling the government’s proposed changes on Thursday alongside Dying with Dignity Victoria president Jane Morris.

Victoria to widen access to assisted dying after ‘heartbreaking’ stories

Reforms designed to bring Victoria’s assisted dying framework in line with other states will be put to a conscience vote by the year’s end.

  • Broede Carmody

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