Documentary: Death, it's not what it used to be!

Death isn't what it used to be! While many of us still perceive what happens to a body after death as being as being simply a funeral and then either burial or cremation, more options are opening up, allowing people to express their feelings for a loved one in more creative ways and possibly create a lasting environmental and emotional legacy. This documentary explores this industry and the options in Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s1IPlloMwQ

I produced this documentary in my final semester of my journalism degree. I've always been a bit of a death nerd but the information available online had always been representative of options in Australia. In this docco I chose mainly to focus on less well known after-death-options but only ones that I thought were possible or would soon be possible for the average Australian and ones I thought more people would actually be receptive to i.e. not shooting your remains into space or being compressed into a diamond.

I also chose just to focus on on options and attitudes rather than price, as prices vary so much that I didn't think it would be very useful to viewers.