Don't Be Caught Dead

About Don't Be Caught Dead

Real conversations about death, dying, grief, life, and everything in between. Hosted by Catherine Ashton, founder of Australian social enterprise Critical Info, Don’t Be Caught Dead explores the conversations most of us avoid until we have no choice. After surviving a serious car accident in 2019 and losing a close friend suddenly in 2023, Catherine discovered how difficult it can be to know what to do when life changes without warning. Each episode brings honest, often deeply personal conversations with people who have experienced grief, sudden illness, caring and loss, alongside people with expertise and lived experience across aged care, palliative care, end-of-life care, estate planning, funeral planning, memorialisation, rituals, grief, bereavement and the many practical and deeply human decisions that arise when life changes. It’s about being better prepared for the moments that can change everything. You don’t have to know everything. You just need to know what to do next.

Publisher

Hosted by Catherine Ashton, founder of Australian social enterprise Critical Info. Learn more: www.criticalinfo.com.au

Category

health & fitness · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Dec 2023

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

140 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Planning Ahead With Pride: LGBTQ+ Communities, Chosen Family and the End of Life with Zoe Hinton

   What happens at the end of life when the systems we rely on don't recognise who we are, or who we love? In this episode, I'm joined by Zoe Hinton, ACON's Community Health Promotion Officer for End of Life and Palliative Care. Zoe works within The LOVE Project (Living Older Visibly and Engaged), ACON's initiative supporting older LGBTQ+ people to stay socially connected, visible and engaged in community, and helps deliver ACON's Taking Control toolkit for palliative care and end of life decisi...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   What Poison, Cemeteries and Ancient History Can Teach Us About Death with Rae

   What can a cemetery teach us about the people who came before us — and what can the history of poison and medicine tell us about the way we understand death today? In this episode, I'm joined by Rae, who is completing a Master of Ancient History specialising in poison and medicine. Her research spans death and dying across the ancient and more recent historical world. Rae also gives cemetery tours at Brighton Cemetery, where she helps bring the stories of the people buried there back to life....

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   What Our Phones Know About Grief with Larissa Hjorth

   What if the phone in your pocket is one of the most meaningful grief objects you own? In this episode, I'm joined by Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth, a digital ethnographer and socially engaged artist at RMIT University here in Melbourne, where she holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in the School of Media and Communication. For two decades, Larissa's work has explored the role mobile media plays in intergenerational connection, intimacy, ageing, loss and death acros...

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