Mother, grandmother and dressmaker, Sandy Mitchell, lives in an isolated town in the southwest region of Western Australia, with a population of around 400 people. She shares how the losses she has experienced in her life – losing her dad to dementia, her newborn baby to a heart defect and her mother to cancer – have impacted her views on life and death.

Death and Dying is an oral history collection commissioned by the State Library of Western Australia and produced by Centre for Stories. Head to centreforstories.com to find out more.