Death
I’m thankful my mother could leave the world on her own terms - but the system is flawed for families like mine
Nothing prepares a person for the carefully orchestrated death of a parent. Our dysfunctional family will never recover from the stresses it placed on us.
- by Andrea Dixon
Latest
Sarah helped her friend end her life. Here’s what it taught her about death
Assisted dying laws, introduced in NSW a year ago, helped Annie Werner regain some control lost when she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.
- by Angus Thomson
‘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
Opinion
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
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
‘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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