Monthly Archives: June 2022

Professor calls for better endings than in a hospital ICU

In: When the end is nigh, it’s best to avoid hospital, Ken Hillman (SMH October 31, 2009) is speaking from years of experience and first hand knowledge. Many of us will spend the last few days of life in an … Continue reading

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From a healthy eating lifestyle to a healthy thinking deathstyle

In the program: From Lifestyle to Deathstyle, Rachael Kohn (ABC RN The Spirit of Things, Sunday 19 July 2009) speaks with a guest who knows the deathstyle subject very well. Download audio show transcript Baby Boomers invented ‘the lifestyle choice’ … Continue reading

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Setting a good example can have long lasting consequences with the potential to benefit us all

It’s at times like these, when there is so much discontent and so much inequality between those at the top and those lower down, that we need some reminders that it doesn’t have to be like this. Indeed in times … Continue reading

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Blessing as greeting

Namaste is an ancient Sanskrit* blessing … … a Hindu greeting. * Sankrit – is an ancient Indo-European language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian (Indic) … Continue reading

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How to mend a broken heart, connect to the natural world

Broadcaster and passionate gardener Indira Naidoo suffered heartbreak in 2020, when during Melbourne’s first lockdown, one of her two younger sisters committed suicide. This book, The Space Between the Stars, is her attempt to make sense of it all, and … Continue reading

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Death and conscious cosmic dust

What happens after we die continues to fascinate, and inspire people to innovate. In: Death is not the end… well, not for sustainable living, anyway. Michaela Burns (Renew Issue 159, Apr-Jun 2022) investigates the intersection of sustainability and death. Some … Continue reading

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