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05/01/2026

If you're still pondering your new years resolutions!

A gentle suggestion for a 2026 resolution: take more pictures and videos of and with your loved ones who are still here. 💙⁠
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✍️ Written by chesjajaja on X.

03/01/2026

A great step forward for those who are passionate about donating their organs

An Australian woman is believed to have become the first person in the world to donate organs after self-administering oral voluntary assisted dying medication.

22/12/2025

Growing Around Grief is a model created by grief counselor Dr. Lois Tonkin. Tonkin came up with the model after speaking to a client about the death of their child. The woman told Tonkin that at first grief filled every part of her life. She drew a picture with a circle to represent her life and shading to indicate her grief. It was all-consuming.⁠
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She had thought that as time went by the grief would shrink and become a much smaller part of her life. But what happened was different. The grief stayed just as big, but her life grew around it. There were times where she felt the grief as intensely as when her child first died. But there were other times where she felt she lived her life in the space outside the circle.⁠
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This view of grief does not tell someone that their grief will go away in time. You will never be "over it." It acknowledges that there will be some days where you feel grief as strongly as you did when the person first died. But there will also be days when you are able to move on with other parts of your life.⁠
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The "growing around grief" model shows how we can still grieve the loss of our loved one while carrying on with our own lives. It shows that we can grow a new life which includes the loss.⁠

🎨 Art by creative.clinical.psychologist on Instagram
✍️ Words by Cruse Bereavement Support

21/12/2025

This can be a challenging time for grief, especially when it's your first Christmas without your person. I see you. I hold you in my heart. This is a lovely article with practical tips to help you through.

5 Recommended Strategies That Work

17/12/2025

17/12/2025

Articles worth reading today...

Part 1: Death & Meaningful GoodbyesWhy Meaningful Goodbyes Matter More Than We Realise Most of us don’t talk about death until we are forced to. And when someone we love dies, we enter one of t…

25/11/2025

An interesting webinar to check out! Pia is a leader in this field and a delight to learn from!

Book now as NDAN & Australian Home Funeral Alliance jointly Presents - End of Life: Bodies in Dress and Death

In this presentation, Dr Pia Interlandi will share samples and previews from the Decomposition Database, an evolving research archive that maps how textiles are used across practical and poetic end-of-life contexts and how they transform through regenerative processes such as natural burial, alkaline hydrolysis, and human composting. Pia will discuss the role of cloth in mediating our transitions between body and environment, and how the material choices we make at the end of life continue to shape what becomes of both the dressed body and its material afterlives.

Audience members will gain an understanding of how textiles interact with decomposition, why material selection matters in funeral and body-disposal contexts, and how design and science can work together to create more regenerative end-of-life practices.

Associate Professor Pia Interlandi is a designer and researcher in the School of Design and the Built Environment at Curtin University in Western Australia. Working at the intersections of fashion, funerals, and forensics, her creative practice Garments for the Grave explores how materials and materiality shape our experiences of dress, death, and decomposition.

DATE - Saturday 6 December 2025, 7Pm-9PM AEDT

Book Now via https://shorturl.at/28OsZ

05/11/2025

We all know our lives will end and yet act as if death is a mirage. A pair of palliative care specialists allow renowned Emmy Award-winning artist Lynette Wallworth an opportunity to explore death with calmness, and even joy, through their use of psychedelics in a world-first trial for palliative care patients.

See it in the cinema next Thursday 13 November, 7pm at Dendy. Includes a virtual Q&A with Lynette and other members of the documentary team.
https://canberra.dendy.com.au/movie/edge-of-life

View the trailer: https://youtu.be/1G_bv4tB1WA?si=_VZYZxItEgCXWxGY

We all know our lives will end and yet act as if death is a mirage. A pair of palliative care specialists allow renowned Emmy Award-winning artist Lynette Wallworth an opportunity to explore death with calmness, and even joy, through their use of psychedelics in a world-first trial for palliative ca...

02/11/2025

VAD comes into effect today in the ACT. If this is something you are considering, you can contact the VAD Care Navigator Service on 02 5124 1888 (M-F 8.30am-5pm).

02/11/2025

Although death-bed visions are common at end of life, those observing may feel a mixture of confusion and even sorrow, as they interact with a person who is experiencing a reality invisible to them. If you've never been with a dying person who has gone through this, you may at some point. Here are some suggestions of how to respond to this phenomenon.

26/09/2025