Artist, maker and designer Dom Foffani was 24 when he and his brother walked into to the family kitchen to find their father dead on the floor. What followed changed his thinking 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.
They eventually decided against a “quiet and solemn and shy and sad” ceremony. “We wanted something that was fun and silly and stupid because that was him,” Foffani says.“We found out that our dad wanted to be buried, but we decided he would be cremated, and we only found that when his will came to the surface, which none of us had read.”
After years of a pandemic-induced focus on death, and voluntary assisted dying now legal in all states , Australians are being urged to talk aboutHaving the first conversation about death can be the difference between leaving your family and friends drowning in paperwork and having real space to grieve, says Cherelle Martin, a campaigner for the August 8 Dying to Know Day, a day encouraging Australians to become “death literate”.
“All of a sudden people are able to grieve for their loved one,” she says. “They are completely focused on honouring that person and feeling their own personal grief, rather than being caught up in decisions.”
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