Death
Opinion
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
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‘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
Exclusive
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
‘We all loved your daddy’: In a country town everyone knows when your father dies
After dad passed away, I discovered more about the man I’d always loved and admired.
- by Michelle Brasier
Opinion
Opinion
I’m glad you’ve come to my funeral. I’ve got a few things to tell you
Thanks to a local entrepreneur, you can now do your own version of the Pauline Hanson video: “Fellow Australians, if you are seeing this now, it means I have been murdered.”
- by Doug Hendrie
Perth families denied burial plots seek ‘compassionate’ way forward
After closing a cemetery, a Perth metropolitan council has advised widows they can no longer be buried in the lots they bought beside their husbands.
- by Gary Adshead
‘I help people depart this world with love’: The women taking the fear out of death
Would you like to attend your own funeral or be transformed into a sapphire ring? These three women are changing the dialogue around dying.
- by Dilvin Yasa
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