Building up your ‘mortality muscles’
AUSTRALIA – The first ‘Festival of Death and Dying’ took place in Sydney with a goal of improving ‘death literacy’.
AUSTRALIA – The first ‘Festival of Death and Dying’ took place in Sydney with a goal of improving ‘death literacy’.
GERMANY – Why people are beginning to reject the cemetery as a place to bury their dead.
AUSTRALIA – Five things they should know about grief that can help support them through this difficult process.
NEW ZEALAND – A Kiwi funeral director has unveiled a range of alternative fabric-covered ‘green’ coffins.
USA – Out of a collection of 6.5 million obituaries, more than 5 million of them chose the term ‘passed away’.
UK – Rising cost of basic ceremonies and lack of state support risks ‘return to miserable pauper’s funerals’
UK – New research has shown that sad songs can help people deal with the loss of a loved one.
USA – I was working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as a medical resident when I learned that my 89-year-old
My sister was the one to care about clothes. After she died, I began to notice how little we do to signal our grief.
One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, she first explored the now-famous five stages of death: