Posts tagged with Funerals

  1. Gone to a wetter place: the Queenslanders disrupting the death industry with water cremations

    Wendy and Mark Tasker in Capella, Queensland, where they are preparing to open an alkaline hydrolysis facility — also known as water cremation — inside an old timber church.

    In this article, University of Melbourne DeathTech research team’s Dr Hannah Gould argues the death care sector is in dire need of independent research in new …

    deathtech.research.unimelb.edu.au/2025/11/18/gone-to-a-wetter-place-the-queenslanders-disrupting-the-death-industry-with-water-cremations

  2. ネット葬式 or 入場制限? – The Big Issue Japan

    covid-19

    Our article for The Conversation, “Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead”, has been translated into …

    deathtech.research.unimelb.edu.au/2020/05/12/new-article-%e3%83%8d%e3%83%83%e3%83%88%e8%91%ac%e5%bc%8f-or-%e5%85%a5%e5%a0%b4%e5%88%b6%e9%99%90

  3. How loved ones are overcoming funeral restrictions

    DeathTech team member Hannah Gould was interviewed for an article in The Canberra Times, exploring how funeral practice is adapting to COVID-19 conditions: There are other …

    deathtech.research.unimelb.edu.au/2020/04/26/how-loved-ones-are-overcoming-funeral-restrictions

  4. Coronavirus has changed death and funerals — but new rituals can help us grieve

    covid-19

    A new piece out with ABC News explores the emergence of rituals during the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing restrictions that have transformed funeral practice. DeathTech …

    deathtech.research.unimelb.edu.au/2020/04/12/coronavirus-has-changed-death-and-funerals-but-new-rituals-can-help-us-grieve

  5. Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead

    The team has a new article in The Conversation discussing the transformation of death rites in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic. “The coronavirus is …

    deathtech.research.unimelb.edu.au/2020/04/01/small-funerals-online-memorials-and-grieving-from-afar-the-coronavirus-is-changing-how-we-care-for-the-dead

  6. Do Funerals Matter? Podcast

    DeathTech Research Network team members Tamara Kohn and Michael Arnold are guests on the “Dying to Tell” podcast for Joy FM. Listen here.

    deathtech.research.unimelb.edu.au/2018/07/16/do-funerals-matter-podcast