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Headstone symbol reveals convict past July 12, 2019
Coffins and company: the coffin club changing lives. June 21, 2019
Funeral trains: All aboard at Sydney’s Mortuary Station June 9, 2019
More Aussie deaths this winter to boost Invocare’s profits May 14, 2019
What a visit to my local mosque taught me about Muslim funeral rituals. March 31, 2019
Old Uralla Cemetery: more than just bushranger territory March 26, 2019
Cemetery symbolism: what do the shapes, engravings, and symbols on headstones mean? March 24, 2019
Digital death: Facebook takes memorial accounts a step further if you die. March 4, 2019
Where are the graves? A quick guide to natural burials February 28, 2019
Telling stories from the grave: Gold Coast teen’s memorial becomes a technological world first February 24, 2019
🍶 From butter to caskets: The inventor who safely lowered coffins into graves⚙️⚰️ February 14, 2019
A taxi driver’s murder, executions and the missing graves: Darwin’s fascinating Fannie Bay gaol February 7, 2019
Discrimination in death: Why are there so few headstones in Derby? August 19, 2018
Test cricketer lies in unidentified grave in WA’s Goldfields, Cricket NSW searching for descendants July 5, 2018
Lost remains of Wolston Park Mental Asylum patients buried in trenches. June 7, 2018
Who should you call when someone dies at home? Funeral director Rick White discusses the practicalities of death. May 30, 2018
Goldrush murder: Assassinated Afghani cameleer rests in outback WA cemetery. April 30, 2018
Searching for gold, laid to rest under tin: a prospecting history captured in WA’s remote Menzies cemetery. April 28, 2018
Mental asylum mass exhumations and missing remains: the tale of Wolston Park’s lost and forgotten patients. February 13, 2018
The life lessons of dying children February 4, 2018
‘Coffin swapping’ discussion highlights changing views on funerals. January 11, 2018
The grape-ful dead: A wine with body fit for a funeral. October 7, 2017
“Killed by a blow from a whale”: The tragedy of the Kelly family. September 28, 2017
The volunteer headstone repairer: Eddie Mason’s cemetery passion September 22, 2017
Burial at sea in shallow waters: Only in the Territory August 27, 2017
Are you sure you want to die in Queensland? Getting the facts on funerals. July 31, 2017
No fowl play at Mackay toy shop offering life lessons ahead of Dying To Know Day on August 8 July 31, 2017
Cultural sensitivities: Why aren’t we saying Dr G Yunupingu’s first name? July 25, 2017
Nancy’s advice and tale of loss: a first-hand account of being left behind to sort ‘things’ out without a will. July 14, 2017
Fowl play suspected as chickens ruffle feathers in New Zealand cemetery. July 10, 2017
Five hundred bodies lost: The troubling tale of gold fortunes at Arrowtown July 3, 2017
Cemetery tales: typhoid and death by beer barrel. July 2, 2017
Dissenters to the right, Roman Catholics to the left – segregation in death June 29, 2017
Listening to the dying and giving them a voice too: The emerging role of the Death Doula June 20, 2017
Funeral faux pas: I showed up to the wrong funeral yesterday April 8, 2017
The Stupa: a high rise for generations of human remains March 24, 2017
Where did the cemetery at Singapore’s Fort Canning Park go? February 19, 2017
A mass grave and tributes to our war dead: Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore February 18, 2017
Advance care plans and Facebook legacy contacts: new additions to The Bottom Drawer Book’s second edition January 29, 2017
Umbrellas over graves and coffins hanging from cliffs. January 15, 2017

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