After years of a pandemic-induced focus on death, and voluntary assisted dying now legal in all states, Australians are being urged to talk about plans for the inevitable | anthonysegaert
Artist, maker and designer Dom Foffani was 24 years old when he and his brother walked into to the family kitchen to find their father dead on the floor.
Foffani, from Sydney, resolved to not die the same way, and the now-29-year-old began preparing for his own death – not as morbid as it might sound. He started talking with his family about his funeral, organ donation and more. He wrote it all down and put it in his backpack before he went overseas.“The idea of what happens when something goes wrong overseas, and no one knows who I am or what my wishes are or who to contact...
“If it’s an unexpected death, a ‘good death’ is when you have considered end-of-life planning,” she says. Family and friends “don’t have to make the array of decisions that come at [them]. They know ... whether you want to be cremated, buried, or something else.”
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