DEAD AIR #71

Lifting The Lid International Festival of Death and Dying 17-19 Nov. 2023. Deadline for submissions: 31 Aug

Detroit International Festival of Darkness 7 Oct. 2023 Deadline for submissions: 1 Aug,

IANDS International Association for Near-Death Studies Conference 30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2023, Washington, DC. Videos

‘Day Schildkret: The Transformative Power of Ritual’ Podcast with Johanna Lunn

RSPCA Victoria’s Home Ever After program, email: homeeverafter@rspcavic.org.au, call: 9224 2238

‘In the End: A parting gift for your loved ones’ by Lisa Doust and Melanie Vugich. Book review by Ellen Hill. Purchase here

‘Ecuador: ‘dead’ woman who was found alive in her coffin dies in intensive care’ The Guardian.

Safety Coffins - Smithsonian Magazine article

TRACKS: Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson / Hunger for a Way Out – Sweeping Promises / Opus – Uranium Club

DEAD AIR #70

Chat with Jonathon Dutton, creator of the doco ‘It Happens To Us All’ showing his Sunday 18 June, 11.30am-2pm. Book here: It Happens To Us All Q&A following the 60 min. screening at The Coolroom, Northern Arts Hotel

‘Why Did Tyke the Elephant Have to Die?’ Ask a Mortician YouTube channel

‘Elephant Mourning Rituals - Decades of research and observation show elephants experience sorrow and grief’ By Kathleen Clohessy.

Review of ‘Santa Sangre’ (1989) a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky  

TRACKS: Paranoia – C.C.T.V / Young & Successful - DIÄT

DEAD AIR #69

'Let's Talk About Death' SBS On Demand, Insight.

'Jessie Williams took her stillborn baby home' SBS News, 30 May 2023.

Online talk: 'After death body care in the home' with Hallie Halloran. Wed. 7 June, 7-8pm.

Death Café at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion. Sun. 11 June at 11.15am, email: bridget@lotusreflections.com.au to register

Online talk: 'Developing natural death care' with Lee Webster. Sun. 11 June, 8-10pm. Register: Trybooking

Doco: 'It Happens To Us All' at The Northern Arts Hotel. Sun. 18th June 11.30am-2pm, with Q&A. Register: Eventbrite

Online Talk 'Must We Read Sade? Re-evaluating Literature's Greatest Criminal in the 21st Century with Author Colin Dickey'. Tues 6 June, 9am AEST .  

TRACKS: Wedding Song No.3 – Papa M / Mea Culpa – Brian Eno, David Byrne / Ousia – Sufjan Stevens, Lowell Brams / 1st Day – Debit / Transit – Fennesz, David Sylvian.