Death
‘Bring a shovel’: Sons stunned as death notice for ‘wild and wayward’ mother goes around the world
When Sean and Chris Kelly prepared their tribute to their mother for The Sydney Morning Herald, they had no idea how much it would resonate with readers.
- by Julie Power
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Cost of living
Forget the cost of living; what about the cost of dying?
My wife wants to be buried side by side with me, preferably somewhere with a view. Who wants to tell her how expensive grave plots are in this city?
- by Thomas Mitchell
The final words to my dying grandmother which I’ll never forget
We kissed her cheeks, and told her again and again how much she was loved.
- by Amy Neff
How we die in Australia
Heart disease has been the leading cause of death for Australians since the 1960s. It’s about to be overtaken.
- by Shane Wright
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Opinion
Situation grave … I can’t keep it together at funerals
I struggle to control my emotions at solemn events: laughing or bawling inappropriately. And that’s when I don’t even know the deceased.
- by Jo Stubbings
‘He wasn’t dead yet’: Gill got rejected from a widow’s group, so she started her own
Gill Malona, a 29-year-old who lost her teenage sweetheart to bowel cancer, says people need to put conversations about death back on the table.
- by Cassandra Morgan
Inside the funeral home for New York’s power brokers and celebrities
John Lennon, Heath Leader, Biggie Smalls and even Logan Roy. For more than a century, Frank E. Campbell has been the mortuary of choice for New York’s luminaries.
- by Alex Vadukul
Opinion
Sunday Life
What surviving a car accident taught me about life
Once I realised that I couldn’t do a single thing to stop what was about to happen, I became overwhelmingly calm, tranquil even.
- by Wendy Squires
Red-light therapy. Cryotherapy. Hyperbaric chambers: The race to stay forever young
Want to live 20, 30, 50 years beyond the norm? Some with wealth and ambition are eagerly pursuing that dream to the extreme.
- by Tim Elliott
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Healthcare
Victorian hospital blunders led to 167 patient deaths
Operating on the wrong part of a patient’s body and fatal medication errors were among the scores of serious events recorded in Victorian hospitals in 2022-23.
- by Henrietta Cook
Sarah’s mum starved herself to death. It was the only legal way for her to go
Wendy Mitchell spent a decade educating people about living with dementia. Now her daughter wants to tell us about how she died, and why it didn’t have to be that way.
- by Michael Bachelard
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