Death
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
‘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
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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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Religion
Why a silent prayer at the grave of someone I never met was so exquisitely meaningful
Our commemorations for the dead take us inevitably into the extraordinary and unknowable.
- by Jane E Sullivan
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I thought I knew what grief was but now realise I had no idea
It’s been five months since my dad passed away. Let me correct myself: It’s been five months since my dad died. I have to use that word – died – because my brain still refuses to believe it.
- by Ruby Kraner-Tucci
Spend on the champagne, not the coffin: How Aussie death rituals are changing
From living wakes to young adult death cafes, the nature of funerals and how we grieve is shifting in Australia.
- by Lauren Ironmonger
‘Mummy, when will you die?’ How I talk to my children about death
Since losing my brother, I’ve had to have conversations I was totally unprepared for. Here’s the expert advice that has helped.
- by Bella Brennan
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