Wow. I wrote the Silence of the Dying blog, got a great weight off my chest, and then walked off and forgot about it.

Since then everything has snow-balled and I have had an amazing response - on here, on Facebook, and via email. People have linked to it and talked about it, newspapers have been [...]

Many years ago I did an hour long interview on Adelaide radio (with Jeremy Cordeaux, I think, but my memory may be wrong). The interview was supposed to promote one of my recent publications, but for some reason we quickly strayed onto the subject of death and dying, and there we stayed for the entire [...]

I read this interesting article today: My Battle to Cut Carbon: a battling, frustrating path to a more honest life. Both the article, and the many comments which follow it, are deeply interesting.

The author, Madeleine Bunting, points out the numerous excuses people give to not give a shit about the environment - all encapsulated [...]

I bet most people laugh at the thought, safe in the knowledge that they are totally insulated from ever starving to death.

In reality, most of us in the western world are as close to starving as any person in a third-world country wracked by war and famine and chronic corruption - plus three [...]

I went out for my early morning walk this morning (complete darkness, utter lack of street lighting, always an adventure) and after about five minutes it began to drizzle, then over the course of the next ten minutes that got heavier and heavier and heavier, and so I scurried for home, not being dressed for [...]