Amy and Norway
In the space of a couple of days, we saw a rightwing Christian Fundamentalist terrorist kill over 90 people in Norway, and Amy Winehouse die of most likely a drug overdose. The reaction of some to...
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Me: Did you see what just hit me? You: I think it might have been a year. Me: What model? You: Looks like a standard model Me: Did you at least get its number? You: I think it was … 2011? I got asked...
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Kicking the can down the road
There’s a term you don’t hear used a lot of the time any more – “kicking the can down the road”. Or rather, I certainly don’t hear it used very much any more. Maybe in other circles it still has...
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Speaking ill of the dead
De mortuis nil nisi bonum As children, we’re taught an old saying, “de mortuis nil nisi bonum”, or translated, “of the dead, nothing unless good”. The common phrase of course in English is “Don’t speak...
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Who owns grief?
A Brazilian judge has ordered Facebook to delete the profile of a 24-year-old journalist who died in May last year. The mother … filed a case arguing that messages, songs and photos posted by friends...
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Speak of the dead
In Speaking Ill of the Dead, I finished by suggesting that it was time to change the old saying, “speak no ill of the dead” to “of the dead, speak only the truth”. That is, when someone dies, it’s not...
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Bring out your dead
In Mourners traumatised after corpse explodes, we’re told: In the late heat of January, a corpse exploded in a crypt at Preston mausoleum in Melbourne’s north, oozing fluids through an inadequate seal...
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…And we all ate her jam with relish
Last night my grandmother, Isobel Preston, passed away, age 93. She had a sudden fall in the early hours of the morning, or perhaps late the night before, and despite being found sometime later (she’d...
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