DEAD AIR #120

Ancient Egypt’s First Fully Preserved Funeral Home Has Been Discovered In The City Of The Dead – all that is interesting

Can I Keep My Parents' Skulls & Tattoos? – Ask a Mortician (YouTube)

Bereavement Assistance - bereavementassistance.org.au

Potter’s Filed Funerals (social enterprise) - pottersfieldfunerals.com.au

‘Theatre of the Last Breath’ by Annie Caulfield at Grass Roots Death Care Support the project HERE

ONLINE: 2025 CDAS Conference ‘Death in transition’ 12-13 June 2025

AHFA & Good Death Impact Network workshops: Adelaide 5-6 April & Melbourne 12-13 April 2025. To be considered, submit an EOI: https://shorturl.at/r9w3D closes 24 Feb. Limited places available.

TOMORROW: Community Lunch, Tues 11 Feb, 12.30pm Castlemaine Town Hall. This lunch is dedicated to dear friend and long-serving volunteer, Austin Crocker, who died unexpectedly last week. Time will be set aside to honour and remember Austin’s memory.

TRACKS: Fat Hans Gone Mad - Party Dozen / Dread - Thank

DEAD AIR #118

Chewton Cemetery stolen equipment! See their Facebook post - Please contact Castlemaine Police if you see or hear anything. Reward offered.

Deathweavers is a free and private online community for deathworkers. Sign up HERE to join the site. Insta: @deathweavers

‘How to plan a DIY Funeral: Is it even possible?’– Taboo Education YouTube

‘Public Grief, Public Space’, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Fri 31 Jan, 6:30-8pm AEDT. Book HERE

TerraCon 2025 -‘Embracing the Future of Terramation’ 4&5 Feb, Tacoma WA, USA

The 2nd International Death Literacies Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, 17&18 March 2025.

AHFA presents: ‘Creativity and Funeral Rites; The use of creative art during wakes, funerals & memorials’ with Joh Fairley of Nyx Funerals, Wed 26 March, 7-8.30pm AEDT. Book HERE

LGBTQ+ Legal Planning Online Workshops - W1 ‘Legal Tips and End of Life Decisions’ Tues 4 Feb, 6-7pm. W2 ‘Advance Care Planning’ Tues 11 Feb, 6-7pm. Facebook post Email: Zoe Hinton, zhinton@acon.org.au

NDAN Presents - ‘The churchyard itself is a great-nuisance. The lively burial grounds of the eighteenth century with Dr Dan O’Brien’ Fri 7 Feb, 7-9pm AEDT Book HERE

 TRACKS: A Want a Break Thru – The Hykkers / In the Jungle – The Hygrades / Love and Death – Ebo Taylor

DEAD AIR #115

‘Writing my will sent me into an existential spiral’ – The Guardian

Postal Service for the Dead

Madagascar's Unique Funeral Culture: From Taboo to Turning the Bones - Taboo Education, YouTube

ONLINE TALK: ‘The Bioscope as a cartographic tool to facilitate conversations about death’ with Chetan Shastri. Presented by AHFA, Wed 22 Jan, 7-8.30pm AEDT Book HERE 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Symbols of Mortality Exhibition (UK) and Conference (online), 22 Feb, 8pm - 23 Feb, 3:30am AEDT. Conference paper abstract due 10 Jan - email: symbolsofmortality@gmail.com

EOI Blog posts: The Collective for Radical Death Studies EOI (ongoing): Field Notes blog.

Festival of Death and Dying Berlin 31 Jan – 2 Feb 2025

TRACKS: Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter - Nina Simone (Jazzeem’s All Styles Remix) / Hot On The Heels Of Love - Throbbing Gristle