Search results for "ashes"

• Collecting the ashes
  

   

• My options after death
  

  The options currently available to people in Australia after their deaths are burial (in the earth or water) and cremation. There are many variations on the type and cost of the container and the final destination for the body or ashes.

• Our Global Neighbours: Remembering Truganini
  

  Fortieth anniversary of returning to her land (and water)

• Village funeral procession
  

   

• Kupona na Dari
  

   

• Aboriginal Scarification
  

  In Australia, scarring was practised widely, but is now restricted almost entirely to parts of Arnhem Land. Scarring is like a language inscribed on the body, where each deliberately placed scar tells a story of pain, endurance, identity, status, beauty, courage, sorrow or grief.

• Disposing of the dead - Cremation
  

  Cremation is the disposal of a corpse by fire. It is an ancient and widespread practice, second only to burial. Some ancient cultures believed that fire was a purifying agent, and that cremation would light the way of the deceased to another world, or to prevent the return of the dead.

• Acorn Urn
  

   

• Burial, cremation or donation
  

  Bodies can be buried or cremated after death. Some people choose to be buried at sea, while others may donate their bodies to science. Find out the legal and other requirements for these different methods of body disposal.

• 1910s: Allan McCulloch - A New Breed of Scientist for the 20th Century
  

   On his recruitment application for war service in 1918 the only address that 32 year-old Allan McCulloch cited was the ‘Australian Museum’.

• Burial - Early Sydney cemeteries
  

  When the earliest European settlers in Sydney died, they were most often buried within a mile of their place of arrival. As the number of deaths rose after the arrival of the second fleet, a suitable cemetery site was needed at a distance from the settlement.

• Our Global Neighbours: Australia and Turkey at War
  

  The profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

• Truganini (1812?-1876)
  

  A life reflecting the tragic history of the first Tasmanians.

• Krefft's Trials and Tribulations on the Blandowski Expedition
  

  Glorious commander, foresighted commander, gallant commander! All supercilious names for William Blandowski from an 1857 expedition log.

• Volcanic disasters and the beginning of Lapita style pottery in Papua New Guinea
  

  A major volcanic eruption about 3000 years ago contributed to the earliest pottery production in Papua New Guinea.