Morticians are taking to TikTok to shed light on the truths around end-of-life rituals. With COVID-19 turning uncomfortable conversations about mortality into an everyday reality, these tutorials and industry Q&As are meeting a growing desire to de-stigmatize death chat.

Amid rising global interest in dark tourism, historic graveyards across Australia are being transformed from underutilised public spaces to travel hotspots. Offering theatrical night-time tours that double as history lessons, Melbourne General Cemetery is making death a less taboo topic.

It has been said that nothing is certain in life, except death and taxes. Although the latter is regularly being reviewed and updated, the former retains its sombre Victorian-era elements. Exit Here is shaking up the industry to modernise rituals and ceremonies around death, dying, and grief.

From the animation of old family photos to that digital avatar of Robert Kardashian, technology is increasingly being leveraged to give the deceased a digital afterlife. While speaking to the dead is no new phenomenon, never before have they been able to answer back.