Grief
Living With Motor Neurone Disease and Finding a Cure
Although the number of Australians diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) each year is significantly lower than for other terminal illnesses, it still remains a devastating physical and emotion...
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Monday, August 17, 2015
Coping on Mothers’ Day
In the lead up to Mothers’ Day, the emptiness and pain that arises for someone who has lost their mother, and for mothers' who have lost a child, can make Mothers’ Day a day to dread and avoid rath...
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Monday, May 4, 2015
A Beautiful Death
We all die. It’s a simple reality, and yet despite this many people still don’t get the chance to do it well. I was lucky enough to be present for a beautiful death.
It is the anniversary of my Au...
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Monday, January 19, 2015
Christmas Remembered
“They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.”
Charles Dickens (A Tale of two Cities)
Christmas times are often amongst a family’s happiest memories; for many, they were indeed the b...
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Grief
Thursday, December 25, 2014
It’s Beautiful : Art For The Heart
“It’s beautiful, just really beautiful.”
“It’s amazing that people can overcome the worst moments of their lives to do something for others.”
“It’s lovely…wonderful…phenomenal. What an incredible...
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Grief
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
The Tobin Story – Chapter 5 : The Tobin Brothers Foundation
In celebration of the 80th anniversary of our funeral company we invite you to listen to chapter five of The Tobin Story.
To commemorate Tobin Brothers Funerals servicing the Melbourne community...
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Friday, March 21, 2014
The Tobin Story – Chapter 4 : Death and Bereavement Education
In celebration of the 80th anniversary of our funeral company we invite you to listen to chapter four of The Tobin Story in which a demand for education about death and bereavement leads Des Tobin ...
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Previous Posts
Prostate Cancer Breakthrough
"Together in Discovery and Care" is the theme for the 19th Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference taking place in Brisbane from the 22-25 August 2018.
Prostate cancer is the most c...
Art For The Heart 2017
“Wonderful, Emotive,
Beautiful, Inspirational!
I come every year
and wouldn’t miss it.”
Effusive acclamation from some of the many visitors to Tobin Brothers Funerals annual Art for the H...
Coping at Christmas
Christmas in many ways is about change.
As a child growing up, our Christmas meant an early rise and our pilgrimage would begin to my mother’s home town Willuara at the foothills of the Grampians,...
Death Is Beautiful
You often hear people say they are not afraid of death itself, but are concerned about how they will die.
But drawing upon the experience of her late aunt, Samantha Rennie suggests that perhaps be...
Australia Needs More People Like Zaidee
It’s always difficult to discuss a subject that makes us feel uncomfortable. The easiest reaction is to avoid it or convince yourself that it won’t affect you or your family.
Organ donation is one...
Art for the Heart Exhibition Keeps Giving
On a cold winter’s day in Melbourne recently, I joined the board of The Compassionate Friends Victoria in front of 173 Canterbury Road, Canterbury to view the building set to become TCFV’s new home...
The Big Freeze and the Hope for a Cure to MND
In London, UK, tens of thousands lined the streets to celebrate The Queen’s Birthday, traditionally marked by the Trooping of the Colour Parade. Meanwhile in Melbourne, Australia, tens of thousands...