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Peter and Maria were mourned by people who loved them. So how did they end up in unmarked communal graves?
By Christopher Knaus and Ariel Bogle

Exclusive: Authorities are failing to notify family, friends and outreach workers before burying strangers in shared plots, a Guardian Australia investigation reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/06/nsw-unmarked-graves-communal-burial-plots-investigation

#NewSouthWales #Poverty #Homelessness #Queensland #Victoria #Housing #Society #Australianews #Socialexclusion #Gambling #Sydney #Deathanddying #Mentalhealth #Pets #Dogs #Family #Friendship #Health #Socialmedia #NewSouthWalespolitics #TheGuardian #ChristopherKnaus #ArielBogle

Hundreds of Australians, including war veterans, are being buried in unmarked communal graves
By Christopher Knaus and Ariel Bogle

Exclusive: Guardian Australia investigation reveals state governments use shared graves to bury those deemed too poor to pay for funerals. ‘It’s unspeakable,’ one relative says

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/06/poor-australians-war-veterans-buried-unmarked-graves

#NewSouthWales #Queensland #Victoria #Homelessness #Australianews #Poverty #Socialexclusion #Sydney #Deathanddying #TheGuardian #ChristopherKnaus #ArielBogle

Holiday cottage company insisted on a death certificate to amend our break
By Anna Tims

Sykes Holiday Cottages showed no empathy and insisted on paperwork we didn’t have so soon after my husband’s death

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/oct/05/holiday-cottage-company-death-certificate-consumer-champions

#Money #Consumeraffairs #Consumerrights #Travel #UKnews #Travelleisure #Business #Bereavement #Deathanddying #Society #TheGuardian #AnnaTims

Good palliative care and assisted dying can go hand in hand | Letters
By Guardian Staff

Readers respond to an article on the urgent need for palliative care reform

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/04/good-palliative-care-and-assisted-dying-can-go-hand-in-hand

#Deathanddying #Hospices #Assisteddying #NHS #Health #Cancer #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

Star Wars actor John Boyega on the day his 10-year-old school friend Damilola Taylor was killed: ‘It kept me up at night because I was just with the guy’
By JN Benjamin

The star was just eight when his friend was stabbed. Decades on, he’s ready to talk about that day – how it shaped him, and how, as he becomes a father himself, it will shape him as a dad

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/04/john-boyega-interview-damilola-taylor-documentary

#DamilolaTaylor #UKnews #JohnBoyega #Film #Culture #Documentaryfilms #Deathanddying #Children #Friendship #Knifecrime #Crime #Lifeandstyle #Society #TheGuardian #JNBenjamin