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- ‘Battle’ language offensive
- ‘Capturing kindness’ through funeral photography.
- ‘Comfort Food for Grief’ – Lyndey Milans’s Simple Chocolate Sour Cream Cake with Coffee Spiced Dates.
- ‘Comfort Food for Grief’ – Lyndey Milan’s Chicken, Vegetable and Pearl Barley Soup.
- ‘Comfort Food for Grief’ – Lyndey Milan’s Coriander Chicken Tray Bake.
- ‘Comfort Food for Grief’ – Lyndey Milan’s Pulled Pork.
- ‘Comfort Food for Grief’ – Lyndey Milan’s Spiced Apple and Raspberry Slice.
- ‘Comfort Food for Grief’ – Lyndey shares her special recipe for Shepherd’s Pie.
- ‘Legacy writing’ programs around Australia.
- ‘Postcode lottery’ for palliative care and dying wishes
- ‘Comfort Food for Grief’ – Lyndey Milan’s Stuffed Eggplants.
- “Inseparable until the end” – The Pulse shares a terrific story.
- “We’ve been going about this the wrong way,” he says.
- $100m boost to palliative care in NSW
- 13 questions about aged care for your local politician
- A beautiful death – writer Richard Flanagan talks about it.
- A Belief Diverse Last Hurrah
- A Good Death is here
- A Good Death testimonial
- A great description of palliative care
- A Grief without a loss: John Brodgen shares.
- A life affirming book about death – with Murdoch Books
- A Mexican Cross to remember Chris
- A Patient’s Perspective.
- A reader’s suggestion.
- A reader’s story: Annie Whitlock on Impermanence.
- A Tale of Two Cities
- A unique ARDS – likely mode of death for Covid-19.
- A video about mouth care for someone dying at home.
- A video about showering for someone dying at home.
- A welcome to 2022 and a tribute to Kenneth Parnell Rice.
- Acute Rheumatic Fever still causes death in Australia.
- Adapting the funeral starts now.
- Addressing the needs of staff dealing with Covid-19.
- Advance Care Directives – let’s look at them again.
- Advance care planning and dementia patients.
- Advances in Advance Care directives.
- Ambos give one last trip to the beach
- America hits 100,000.
- An art project that touches everything.
- An intensive care specialist’s insight.
- An isolated carer pays it forward.
- Anniversary
- Answers to yesterday’s question: “Will I be able to access…”
- Are 18 Deaths at Home from Covid-19 acceptable?
- Are face masks a good idea or not?
- Are you dicing with death if you have the Astra- Zeneca vaccine?
- Artificial Intelligence in the end of life space.
- Asbestos deaths now 90,000 a year globally.
- At her window
- At home (alone) with Covid-19
- At our Rotary North Sydney Sunrise breakfast we talked about your paperwork.
- Australia comes fourth in ranking of end-of-life care.
- Australia Day at Barangaroo today
- Australia’s mortality low but hospitals face shortage of protective equipment.
- Author Leah Kaminsky shares her insights
- Balancing sorrow and growth
- Believe your eyes
- Better technology use during Covid is life changing
- Beyond casseroles: A widower’s guide to moving forward.
- Bianka Eifler explores grief at Wollongong’s ‘Conversations around Death and Dying’ day.
- Billy Connolly says the best way to deal with a fear of death is to laugh in its face.
- Biographies – a legacy and also a therapy for the dying.
- Biography service is ‘A friend in death’.
- Biography services are for the dying and the living.
- Birth and death again – that endless yet uplifting cycle.
- Birth is a beginning and death a destination…
- Bombs and bloodshed will not win Ukraine for Russia.
- Book review: A matter of life and death
- Book review: Journeys of the Heart
- Book review: The Museum Of Words
- Books: Grief is the Thing with Feathers
- Breakfast talk with New Way To Stay
- Breaking barriers to dying well – update
- Burial in a shroud – no coffin.
- Burials Without Hugs – Our 2020 Moment
- But it doesn’t look too serious.
- Calling it for what it is.
- Can we do that?
- Care in the carpark.
- Change is a coming – to palliative care
- Choosing the executor of your will.
- Christine Pedley reflects on a final farewell and ‘doing death well’.
- Climate grief is a real thing.
- Coffin Art gave Sandra the Chance to Talk to her Cousin one Last Time.
- Come join us at Millers Point Markets – when the talking starts again.
- Commemorating not celebrating Anzac Day.
- Community steps out and new life beckons.
- Compassion at the end of life in Covid-19 times.
- Compounding tragedy: reflection on the Australian bushfires.
- Congratulations Noelene!
- Contact, listen and bless.
- Conversation with Jenny Briscoe-Hough about death
- Conversations around Death and Dying.
- Coronavirus mortality – explainer.
- Could an end of life doula help to midwife your death?
- Covid 19: Good news and updates.
- Covid death and the nursing home – the report is tabled.
- Covid-19 – fact-check and myth busting: surfaces
- Covid-19 unlikely to be contracted from a dead body.
- Covid-19 update – a world view.
- Covid-19 update from Good Grief!
- Crucial end of life conversations
- Dear Andrew
- Death Cafe at Sutherland Library
- Death doulas are becoming increasingly popular in Australia – so what exactly do they do?
- Death etiquette in the age of Instagram.
- Dementia and end-of-life decisions
- Did you work with a death doula?
- Dignity and Care at Home.
- Dipping into the well
- Disenfranchised Grief: Melbourne two years on.
- DIY probate
- Do dostadning now
- Do you want to live for 1000 years?
- Does the internet help our grief – or make it worse?
- Don’t feel hopeless – even if you are old.
- Don’t waste Perrottet’s $743 million palliative care spend.
- Dr Jamal Rifi translates our Covid-19 symptom awareness guide into Arabic.
- Dreams can be challenging for the grieving.
- Dying is a big experience, and only a small part is medical.
- Dying to Know Day
- Dying to Know Day 2023 – getting ready for August 8.
- Dying to Know Day is on tomorrow in Australia.
- Elder abuse could worsen during Covid-19.
- Eleven steps to a prepare for a good death – in ordinary times.
- Eleven steps to prepare for a good death – in Covid-19 times.
- End of life in aged care facilities
- Even Harvard knows about grief.
- Exclusive: Lockdowns until 2021 possible.
- Excruciating and gut-wrenching, says Kerri-Anne Kennerley.
- Fab Five at Queer Eye help Craw-Zaddy overcome his grief.
- Facebook etiquette when someone dies
- Families can be broken by misunderstandings when someone dies.
- Farewell to Pauline Helen Hensley
- Farewelling Dot with music
- Feel The Magic
- Few words today…
- Find your Ikigai and ‘rewrite your life story’.
- Five easy steps to prepare for the end of life while you’re young and skittish.
- Floods today and resources to help you.
- Flowers for Jean
- For Julian
- Forced Adoption: Ten years on from the apology
- Four Corners looks at Newmarch House.
- Four planning steps – sounds complicated but they’re not.
- Free services for pensioners from the Trustee and Guardian.
- Funerals and Lockdowns
- Funerals in Australia are now restricted to only 10 people.
- Funerals now.
- Galdhopiggen – on my mother’s birthday
- GaryScribbler Finds Joy
- Gather My Crew – can help you share the love and support
- George Floyd
- Giving Choice and Power to the Dying
- Good Friday, a significant ‘death day’.
- Good Grief and Daily Mail on helping children cope with the Queen’s death.
- Good grief: how can we make it easier to talk about death?
- Good Grief! – what times we live in – but we’re here to support.
- Good Grief! It’s 2018 already…
- Good Grief! loves death doulas.
- Good Grief! shares the message on Channel 7’s Morning Show.
- Goodbye Fran
- Gotcha4Life
- Graham’s story
- Green-pod burials solve many problems
- Grief and forced adoption
- Grief and letting go
- Grief and love
- Grief in the time of Covid-19
- Grief, food and the idea of ‘culinary therapy’
- Gus Worland has Gotcha4life
- Happy 100th Guy!
- Have you heard of a death doula?
- Have your say…for a few more weeks
- Head in the clouds
- Heart failure
- Helen and Deirdre
- Helen explains why ‘Good Grief’ is good for ‘The Hub’.
- HelloCare discusses ‘One happy year’.
- Help with end of life care directions has just arrived.
- Helping children deal with the Christchurch attacks.
- Hey Julian, a lot has happened since you left
- HIV in Australia: Pride overcomes prejudice.
- Holding on to Hope
- Holding on to the spiritual death, despite Covid-19.
- Hope.
- How can we help those who need it most?
- How do we ensure good palliative care in these strange times?
- How Funerals are changing.
- How was palliative care left out of this?
- I did it my way
- I found out I’m terminally ill. What’s next?
- I learnt something new.
- I’m not going
- I’m pretty excited – ‘A Good Death’ has now been translated into Chinese.
- If only I knew
- If someone witnesses my will being signed by Skype, is that valid?
- Improving palliative care in nursing homes.
- Is death painful or more like uncomfortable?
- Is fear of death a factor in some mental illness?
- Is the place I want to be cared for the place where I want to die?
- It Is Finished
- It’s legal to withhold life-sustaining medical treatment
- It’s not as simple as numbers, says Linda
- It’s not what you see in the movies, says Kathryn Mannix.
- It’s a moment for a shout out, a ‘thank you!’
- It’s Australia Day tomorrow and this is why so many people mourn it.
- Jane and Richard talk about the last few months of life
- Jenny’s Facebook group Covid Safe Elders Australia.
- Jess Hill explains coercive control in domestic violence.
- Jill Emberson’s legacy – Pink Meets Teal.
- Jill faces down death in her podcast Still Jill.
- John Brogden shares chicken soup with Simon Marnie.
- Join us to learn how to manage your grief.
- Join us at Death Cafe at Jannali on March 11 – everyone welcome.
- Join us for an ‘Understand Death Better’ Q&A session at the Kirribilli Neighbourhood Centre.
- Join us for another ‘Understand Death Better’ – and there are more coming.
- Join us in Kirribilli on May 22 – Reflection.
- Join us in Mosman – ‘Understand Death Better’.
- Join us in Wollongong for Conversations around death and dying.
- Join us when Good Grief! goes to Hunters Hill.
- Just sayin’ Good Grief reached 50,000 visits today.
- Kim’s story
- Last Days program launched.
- Lessons from World War I
- Let’s avoid collateral damage.
- Let’s move them out.
- Let’s talk about it.
- Letting go – there’s no end to it.
- Libby’s story.
- List of Biography Services in NSW – please also let us know about other ones near you.
- Live the Life You Please and Q&A session.
- Living with Covid-19 in 2022.
- Living with Grief – Christian’s story.
- Living with Grief.
- Making a difference
- Making music as a way to say goodbye
- Managing Family Conflict at the End of Life
- Mary’s House: ‘sister’s keeper’ role in domestic violence
- Matthew’s heart-warming story of post-traumatic growth.
- Maybe there ARE stages of grief after all – and one is a tsunami.
- Meeting Picaluna’s beautiful funeral celebrants.
- Melbourne study confirms intense suffering for families of those dying in nursing homes during Covid-19
- Memorials During COVID
- Men and grief
- Menopause and My Ticking Clock
- Merry Christmas and see you again in 2023.
- Mikhailla’s story of losing baby Foxx.
- Mind levees and grief
- Missing – palliative care volunteers.
- More about Dying to Know Day
- More palliative care at home and in aged care? Yes please!
- More questions than ever about advance care directives.
- Mortals with Ross and Rachel Menzies
- Music reaches into the souls of the ill and dying
- My advance care directive is only short
- My contribution to National Palliative Care Week.
- My Deer, Phoenix Park.
- My father died on Wednesday.
- My friend Margie says goodbye to her brother Stephen
- My Grief Story – The Good Grief Festival, UK
- My name is Allison Rees, I am the grieving mother of Isabella.
- National Advance Care Planning Week – 20-26 March.
- National Advance Care Planning Week, March 22-26.
- New life
- No more higher motive
- Northern Italy’s painful lessons. What can we learn?
- Not a time to go it alone
- Notes for Australia Day.
- Now that the funeral is over
- Of Critical Importance.
- Of droughts and flooding plains.
- Omicron threat to the aged worse than it should be.
- On mothers – and what we appreciate when they’re gone.
- Our first hubbub of 2020 was at Waverton.
- Our grief responses are okay – even the little ones.
- Our new Resource Hub is here and we’re over the moon!
- Palliative care and Covid-19
- Palliative care appalling – expert
- Palliative care is now about living as well as possible
- PART 1: The feeding needs of people at the end-of-life.
- PART 1: When someone dies at Christmas time.
- PART 2: Contacting services during the holidays when someone dies
- PART 2: Malnutrition in the elderly
- PART 3: The role of supplements
- Passing all Understanding
- Patients need the truth at the end, says Jeanette
- Petrea King talks about “Beyond cancer: creating a healing environment”.
- Pharmacists and palliative care.
- Play School helps with stories about beginnings and endings.
- Podcasts to Help with Grief
- Priceless work of our local carers.
- Professor Joe and ‘the inappropriate question’.
- Psychiatrist Dr Michelle Atchison’s thoughts on grief and isolation
- Quality time at the sunset of his father’s days.
- Reach Beyond – and let go of fear of death, this Seniors Week.
- Recovering from road trauma
- Red Dust Healing
- Reflected legacy
- Reflecting on grief for Body and Soul.
- Reflecting on our June 1 Understand Death Better Q&A session.
- Reflecting on the true person
- Remembering Julian today.
- Remembering mothers today
- Rethinking tunnelled drains – a good example of a small change that makes a big difference in palliative care.
- Sallie Tisdale at the Sydney Writers’ Festival
- Sascha’s musings on her sister, for World Suicide Prevention Day
- Saying goodbye to a cousin
- Saying goodbye with architecture
- See you in 2017
- Sharing Pregnancy Loss.
- She wasn’t a cheeseburger.
- Should I go to the funeral service?
- Sixty Seven Days by Yvonne Weldon.
- Social work’s expanding role in ‘the good death’ .
- Socials to Follow for Grief
- Sometimes the source of our grief is not noticeable to others.
- Sorry to disappoint you, Robbie, but it’s coming to us all.
- Sources for: Living with Covid-19 in 2022.
- Spiritual experiences around the time of death
- Sponsored Article: a coaching course to manage grief?
- Sponsored Article: Decision making is a human right.
- Sponsored Article: Grief Care is here to support you.
- Sponsored Article: How can ExSitu help with my advance care planning?
- Sponsored Article: When tragedy strikes, it’s never part of our plan.
- Spotlight on the ‘Good Death, Good Life’ expo, Brisbane.
- Statement by Dr Melanie Wroth
- Stephen lives on
- Still thinking about nursing homes and Covid-19.
- Sue Lennox and Resilient Communities
- Suicide Memorial Event today – everyone is welcome.
- Suicide prevention when wait lists are too long
- Support for parents of murdered children.
- Suspend disbelief and watch ‘Surviving Death’.
- Sutherland Death Cafe still has spaces for Dec 2.
- Sutherland Shire death cafes are back.
- Sweden’s Covid-19 story compared to Australia’s.
- Talk and tea – at Collins Booksellers, Thirroul.
- Talk to action in Singleton
- Talking about the ‘D’ word.
- Tender Funerals – a shout out for their ‘Community undertaking’.
- Tender Funerals is Looking for a new staff member
- Thank you for joining us at the North Sydney Community Centre.
- Thanks 2GB for talking to us about the good death.
- The ‘Wecroak’ app.
- The case of the disappearing ambulance care plan
- The challenges continue.
- The chilling words of an Australian police investigator in 2020
- The cleaning lady’s gift
- The Conversation project
- The deathbed vision
- The fear of being alone at death
- The fig tree
- The five stages of grief are a furphy.
- The flowers at the pedestrian button.
- The Great Unsettlement
- The grey cat
- The Grief Kaleidoscope
- The Grief of a Child
- The Grieve Project
- The havoc of unresolved grief.
- The ideal vs the real family
- The Kiwi Coffin Club
- The link between loneliness and early death.
- The little losses that make up 2020.
- The Ocean of Grief – How does grief affect older people?
- The Surviving Siblings Podcast by Maya Roffler.
- The Swedish model again.
- The things people say
- The Violet initiative is blooming.
- The work of Leaf and Twig.
- There is ash in our hearts…
- There is no such thing as unconscious.
- There is now a new definition of palliative care
- Things that I might forget on the first flight after my mother’s death
- This is a cry from the heart.
- Time for Australia to look at Covid ‘Lessons Learnt’
- Tis the season to be jolly – but sometimes that can be hard.
- Tis the season!
- To live or not to live – Covid-19 and the elderly
- Today we reflect on Covid-19 deaths again.
- Today, a Good Grief! explainer.
- Tomorrow is Anzac Day.
- Too Much or Not Enough Pain Relief?
- Tree Burials, Sea Burials and Green Burials
- Tributes to Parents
- UK insight into Covid-19 ICU
- Understand Death Better Q&A session – North Sydney Community Centre – a reminder.
- Understand Death Better Q&A session – North Sydney Community Centre.
- Understand death better.
- Understanding Death at Campbelltown Library.
- Very new grief – the first days and weeks
- Very Special Kids and busting myths about children’s hospice.
- Watch this space – A Good Fight.
- We are back and looking forward to working with you.
- We discussed planning documents – at Paperchain Bookshop.
- We feel deeply for our US readers right now.
- We had a great conversation – Just a reminder about this event in Wollongong on Thursday, February 9 – places still available.
- We heart the Manly adolescent and young adult hospice
- We love this photo of Kathryn.
- We love to chat – but all our talks are on hold for now.
- We need answers about Newmarch House – some from governments.
- We need Covid-19 symptom awareness right now, says Dr Jamal Rifi.
- We need to explain reactions to Covid-19 vaccines.
- We reflected – Grief can last forever can’t it?
- We talked – and raised money for Can Too’s cancer research
- We talked – at Paddington Library
- We talked – at Secret Book Stuff
- We talked – at the Canberra Writers’s Festival.
- We’re back in Mosman again for a second FREE ‘Understand Death Better’ Q&A session.
- Welcome to Good Grief!
- What David Dungay has to do with this.
- What grief can teach us now, from the neighbourhood
- What happens when a child wants to talk about death?
- What happens when nurses are afraid at their patients’ end of life?
- What has collective grief taught Harriet Price?
- What has grief taught Allegra Spender?
- What has grief taught author Dr Richard A. Harris?
- What has grief taught Claudia Tyson?
- What has grief taught Jessica Rowe?
- What has grief taught Susan Marcuccio?
- What is a next-of-kin?
- What is the difference between grief and trauma?
- What is your biggest question about dying and what is your biggest fear?
- What is your biggest question about dying and what is your biggest fear?
- What loss has taught Jason and Neil.
- When a death exposes hidden tensions
- When expectations differ
- When Grief Comes Unexpectedly Calling
- When is grief abnormal?
- When the fear of running out of money is greater than the fear of death.
- When the grief of a child is denied.
- When ventilation goes too far.
- Where will Covid-19 take us next?
- Where will I be buried?
- Who Am I Without David?
- Who makes it out alive?
- Who needs to know?
- Why are we lonely and what can we do about it?
- Why birth and death are similar – a nurse’s perspective.
- Why CPR is often not compatible with a quiet death.
- Why did this happen?
- Why higher wages in aged care will help the good death.
- Why not attend an online talk by death anxiety guru Dr Rachel Menzies?
- Will I be able to access our joint bank account when my partner dies?
- Will this report improve palliative care?
- Wills and enduring power of attorney in south Western Australia.
- Wishes about organ donation and the twist in advance care directives.
- Work and end-of-life care – online for post-Covid times
- World figures show wide range in Covid-19 nursing home deaths.
- World figures show wide range in Covid-19 nursing home deaths.
- Wouldn’t it be great if we had a groundswell of compassionate communities.
- Wow! Would you dare host one of these dinners?
- Writing Grief Heals
- Writing Life Well
- You can check out any time you like but …
- You only die once campaign starts
- Your Covid-19 team wants to know what you want.
- Your will: a popular topic.
- Zooming in on grief via webinar
- A Good Death by Margaret Rice
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