Apr 9, 2014 | Family led funerals, Green funeral, Services
Thirty years’ ago Australians’ life expectancy grew substantially. This post looks at the implications for funeral options. Thirty years’ ago public health initiatives had cut down infant mortality. TAC style campaigns reduced teenage drunk driving...
Feb 17, 2014 | Burial, Death conversation, Environment, Green funeral, Sustainable
Thursday night’s Sustainable Living Festival event at Hub Melbourne showed lots of people want new funeral options. So we tried co-designing a low impact, sustainable funeral. First up, sustainability principles of inter-generational equity and environmental,...
Feb 10, 2014 | Death conversation, Environment, Sustainable
‘Co-design that Sustainable Funeral!’ Coming up on Thursday 13th February! This event builds on last year’s successful SLF event on Funeral Options. great opportunity to nut out what sustainable might mean in this context. You’ve spent your life...
Nov 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
After two years focused on the workings of citizen committees I joined a community advisory committee myself. Melbourne’s Greater Metropolitan Cemetery Trust (GMCT) services a huge community. That’s Altona to Lilydale and Fawkner. The diversity of its...
Sep 27, 2013 | Death conversation, Sustainable
I learned that only 2 out of 5 Australians have a will. It was in the morning paper. In the same paper there was an article highlighting that more and more people under 35 are purchasing property. I wondered if they would get organised to do a will. No one wants...