The ways we meet people, place, and transition reveal much about how well we live.
This program invites a re/membering and reimagining of what can be made possible in death, dying and grieving together.
When we hold regard generously and authentically, we move from seeing people and places as resources, to feeling them as relationships. To hold mutual regard is to attend the body, place, mystery, memory, and meaning.
Through an exchange of conversations, curiosities, stories, and soundscapes, Emma invites us to turn toward one another, not as problems to solve or roles to fulfil, but as whole beings in life’s tender and vulnerable thresholds of death, dying and grieving.
Every transition matters.
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If listening to this program stirs something in you – deeper questions, a memory, tender places or a longing – you’re not alone, reach out to a listening partner, seek professional supports or lean into Lifeline on 13 11 14.
Emma is a member of Palliative Care NSW, the Natural Death Advocacy Network (NDAN), Amitayus Home Hospice Service, The Ethics Centre and is an advocate for Compassionate Communities Australia.
15 Jun 2026, 11am Regard Marking one whole year of Regard – whoo hooo! Thanks for hanging out with me. // Thanks for sharing the program with friends and fam. It’s very cool to know that the program has listeners in Tasmania, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Thailand, South Africa, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Spain, the US, UK and Ireland! // This week I am in conversation with local octogenarian, retired psychotherapist and musician Raphael Lee Cass. // Indelible: The Poetry of Decay, Tweed Regional Gallery, 30 May 2026 – 16 August 2026
8 Jun 2026, 11am Regard Monday 8 June // Ep 50 A heartening conversation with Marla Zapach who is working with cumulative and multilayers of grief in the intellectual and developmental disability community (Alberta). // I’d love to hear from you if you know if and where this work might be happening here in Australia. //. BYRON HOSPITAL turns ten! There was cake, music and dancing. // We wear our life in our BONES, Professor ALICE ROBERTS // And I speak with Jonathan de Jong, Director of the much anticipated Human Forever film about the value of living alongside people living with dementia. // This is not a sad film about dementia – it’s an embrace of all the hopeful initiatives that are happening around the world.
1 Jun 2026, 11am Regard This week on Regard very special guest Jackie Dent discusses the “cathedral” like beauty of the inner workings of the human body, dissection and her book The Great Body Teachers. // Andreas Vesalius: Celebrating 500 years of DISSECTING nature https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4762440/ // I ask, where in your house do you go, When you need to cry? // Know Your Place, A Castlemaine Cemetery project to restore dignity. Human remains displaced from their original burial locations at Castlemaine Cemetery during decades of cemetery operations. // A formal apology extended in Tasmania's parliament for the past practice of taking human specimens from autopsies and displaying them in a pathology museum without the knowledge or consent of family members. // And you’re invited to take a block walk aka a land scuba dive. Spend an hour studying the block where you live. Take a thermos, have a tea break. Notice everything.
25 May 2026, 11am Regard This week on Regard I speak with special guest Alexandra Wynne about the performance art and practice of BUTOH // Should you tell someone living with DEMENTIA that a loved one has died? // This Saturday’s BLUE MOON // Abandoned hospital (LA) transformed by ARTISTS, the Emotions Hospital // HOSPITALS as generative eco systems for healing, Well Khoo Teck Phat Hospital
18 May 2026, 11am Regard A long walk acknowledging INDIGENOUS CULTURE // DESIGNING LAST SPACES, Where do you want to die? // Michael P Murphy for Time Magazine about architecture of last spaces // Reflection on capability and capacity // DAISY BOX COFFINS and caskets – Guest Greg Nicols speaks into greener funerals, A MALE LENS ON GRIEF and loss, cardboard coffins, cremation OMISSIONS, robotics in death care // PET COMPANIONS for grievers // LINKS FREE BOOK Who Owns the Robots? Beyond Capitalism, Greg Nicols https://viscomagent.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-robots // www.daisybox.io // https://time.com/article/2026/04/14/the-room-where-my-father-died-changed-how-i-see-architecture/
11 May 2026, 11am Regard Getting to the heart of PALLIATIVE CARE WEEK 11-17. Live well, live your way, have hard conversations, personalise care // Pall Care vs Hospice Care, what’s the difference? // PCQ with podcast host Elham Day recommended listening Honouring Marine Rescue NSW volunteers who lost their lives in service last week // Details of how to DONATE to get a rescue vessel back in the water sooner, below // Would you LIE IN A COFFIN OR a GRAVE to reflect on your life and death? // DEAD AIR radio program weekly 10-11am with HAYLEY WEST https://www.hayleywest.com.au/radio/ And special guest AMY FIRTH, Interfaith minister, funeral director and deathcare worker talks into The Funeral Train // Sydney had a train line built just for the dead. Coffins in the back, mourners up front, twice a day for 80 years. Hear more about that in a wonderful conversation with the jewel that is Amy Firth. // Donations to the Marine Rescue Ballina Boat Replacement Fund can be made via: Ballina Bowling and Recreation Club Ltd. BSB: 032-591 Account Number: 236790. Or in person at Cherry Street Sports Club. // Resources: Palliative Care Qld, GRIEF PODCAST with Elham Day https://www.youtube.com/@PalliativeCareQueensland/podcasts // HAYLEY WEST, DEAD AIR https://www.hayleywest.com.au/radio/ // AMY FIRTH Website: www.amyfirth.com Instagram: @amyfirthministry – TikTok: @AmyTheDeathCareLady
4 May 2026, 11am Regard HUMANOID ROBOTS – House chores, CARE TASKS, companionship. Do we need to employ a humanoid intermediary like Daisy from Singapore, Neo from California, Japan’s Pepper // Will robots tend our dead, will deathcare roles die a tech induced death? // Could reverence for inanimate objects offer a more possible/comforting lens on humanoids? // Health injustice isn’t accidental, it’s produced by systems that distribute care, power, and resources unevenly. Kate Finch from HEALTH JUSTICE Australia joins me to discuss better health and justice outcomes for marginalised members of community and layers of complex needs // BANGALOW FILM FESTIVAL program holds some gems, check out Shelf Life if you’re interested in cheese and pondering life and mortality.
27 Apr 2026, 11am Regard VALE James Valentine // AFTER DEATH VIDEOS & VOICE MESSAGES // Benefits of MUTUAL CARE. // // Last Aid – Care for the Dying at Home – AMITAYUS HOME HOSPICE SERVICE NB: Whilst active dying may be interpreted as community care and support, it more often refers to the last stage of life when the body no longer needs or wants food or drinks, the skin can mottle and change colour, breathing can be slower and more intermittent. A good point of reference is Kathryn Mannix's Dying for Beginners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayMhA1pRLeY
20 Apr 2026, 11am Regard Community Memorials // NICOLE KIDMAN is training to become a DEATH DOULA // A griefy Ed Sheeran documentary, The Sum of It All // MONOSEUM, A newsingle-work exhibition space in CLUNES // ARTS NORTHERN RIVERS, Practice 101: Memoir as Catharsis, Dr Tim Baker // AMITAYUS upcoming Last Aid Training // Financial and emotional impacts of SADMIN // HEREKIND REPORT FINDINGS – Image: Stefanie Miriklis, Styx (detail of)
13 Apr 2026, 11am Regard April is Youth Cancer Awareness Month Youth // CANTEEN.ORG.AU // A rise of up to 270% in bowel cancer for our young people aged between 15-25 years // DEPARTIES – Departure parties // Grief & BURLESQUE Olive Von Topp // Cannupa Hanska Luger , INDIGENOUS world views, NANA BLANKETS and taxidermy // Test a survey of residential aged care facilities EMAIL [email protected] // Go Gentle's 2026 State of VAD Report // VAD and Dementia // Short Film, How to Shoot a Ghost, Jessie Buckley // LINKS: VAD – https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/2026_state_of_vad_report // VAD and Dementia – https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/dementia_and_vad_a_complex_issue. // Taxidermy – https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW76Fq2iDWC/? //
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