DEAD AIR radiothon special 2024

SPECIAL GUESTS! Jenny Valentish & Frank Magree from the Spirit Levels Podcast

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FIRST Alkaline Hydrolysis business in Australia, and it is in Tassy - Alluvium Water Cremations

FIRST 100% Natural Conservation burial site in Australia, and it’s in NSW - Walawaani Way Conservation Burial

Dying to Know Day August 8 (and the whole of August) - Dying To Know Day 2024

WAYS OF BEING WITH A FAMILY WHEN A PERSON IS DYING with Annie Whitlocke. Thursday 25 July 2024, 7-8.30pm AEST. Presented by the Australian Home Funeral Alliance, book HERE

WATER CREMATION IN AUSTRALIA with Brendan Cooper and Luke Cripps. Saturday 10 August 2024, 9-11am AEST. Presented by the Natural Death Advocacy Network, book HERE

SHOUT OUT TO: Queer as Death Collective, check out their Facebook page for upcoming events HERE

DEAD AIR has generously been sponsored by Trash Cult; venue, bar, film, book & record store. 15 High Street, in the Burra of Eaglehawk trashcult.com.au

DEAD AIR #58

‘Metamorphisis’ an excerpt from the book Sum, written by David Eagleman (neuroscientist)

Radio Lab Podcast episode ‘AfterLife’

Netflix docuseries Surviving Death - 'Maybe death isn't the end': can a TV series prove the existence of an afterlife?’ by Radheyan Simonpillai, The Guardian

‘The people of Tana Toraja have a different but 'beautiful' understanding of death. It's made Nandira 'so proud' of her culture’ by Kate Ainsworth, ABC News

Postal Service for the Dead, Sleepy Sue

Dark Market - Goldfields Gothic Festival call out

TRACKS: Bad Girls – M.I.A / Neurotica – Redd Kross / Love – Mica Levi / Hot on Heels of Love – Throbbing Gristle

DEAD AIR #55

Hearse driving course IFISS

Institute of Palliative Medicine, Kozhihode India 17-19 Feb. 2023, Curios Global Competition – Submissions due 12 Feb.

'Digital Necromancy: Users’ Perceptions of Digital Afterlife' Tues 28th Feb 2023, 7-8 PM GMT

The Death Positive Library UK

BOOK: ‘The Sustainable Dead: Searching for the Intolerable’ edited by Ruth McManus

‘Accounting for Death: an historical perspective’ [Necroaccountability] Call for papers due 15 Sept. 2023.

Who will get rid of your sex toys when you die? And where do you dispose of them?

TRACKS: The Sinking Bell (Blue Sheep) - Boris & sunn O))) / Omens and Portents 1: The Driver - Earth