Pooch Power in the search for Perpetual life.

A move by Silicon Valley to take fringe life extension experimentation mainstream using man’s best friend as the testing base for longevity drugs. Would you put your beloved pooch up for this project for the potential to extend their life?  About 30,000 American dog owners have.  To learn more see this link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/if-dogs-live-longer-with-anti-aging-science-humans-could-too

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Death Doulas

Confronting scenes of bodies lying in corridors, vans, and fields.  These are the images of a global pandemic taking the lives of millions.  It has many of us all thinking of our own mortality and how we might approach our end of life.  This article explores the growing service of death doulas and death cafes. Would you use these services?  […]

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Freaky Friday – Mortician Answers Dead Body questions

#SBS tv show: You Can’t Ask That, is wildly successful, probably because it takes our insatiable curiosity and gently humanises questions that we are taught not to ask in a polite society.  In this video, Victor M. Sweeney, a licensed funeral director and mortician, similarly answers questions about dead bodies and the funeral director profession. He politely explores a topic that […]

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Voluntary Assisted Dying

Voluntary Assisted Dying

Queensland Parliament is about to introduce Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation. Christine Smyth speaks with Adam Stephen ABC Drive NQ discussing how the scheme will operate. Christines explains the protection mechanisms built into the draft legislation and flags some of the difficulties people might have in accessing the scheme. To listen, click the play button below:

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A GRAVE PROBLEM

A GRAVE PROBLEM

A property boom of a different kind. With property prices sky rocketing it’s hard enough to house our loved ones while we are alive, imagine digging deep to the tune of $615,000 for a vault to house your dead loved ones? Burial licences are traded like any other property. Not quite as exciting as Dogecoin, but just as divisive.  In […]

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Scam Watch Warning – Succession Scams

Scam Watch Warning – Succession Scams

According, to Scam Watch, so far this year Australians have fallen prey to scams losing $63 Million and that is just in this first financial quarter of 2021!  Disturbingly, the age group most likely to fall prey are the over 65s. (Statistics courtesy of Scam Watch Australia). So, chances are you have received one of those emails telling you your […]

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