This episode of Parting is a little shorter than usual; that's because we wanted to focus in on one topic in particular...memory. When we talk about grief it's usually about things that have happened in the past, but sometimes we can grieve over the present. Dementia is a disease that affects memory, and losing memory can sometimes be harder than losing someone. 

We will speak to Lyn, a psychology professor, about how we can understand dementia and improve the quality of life with this disease.
Later, we will continue "The Unteachables" (Part Two) storyline as a year 9 student and his Nan consider life without trees. 

Advisory- This episode contains some swear words and some of them are unbeeped. If you prefer a fully beeped version send us a message and we can make one for you.

Usually in our podcasts, each episode has different kinds of stories – usually short stories  … some of them fictional and some of them more like the conversation that you've just been listening to. But today we're doing something different. The fictional story in this episode is called "The Unteachables" and it's just the beginning of a long yarn that will go over the next 5 or 6 episodes.

Today we have two stories for you:
Story 1: Bereavement - a conversation with Bianka: The Bereavement Counsellor and Coordinator for our Local Health District.
Story 2: The Unteachables - Part One: About a Year 9 English class who help each other understand grief through, of all things, poetry...

Advisory- This episode contains some swear words and some of them are unbeeped. If you prefer a fully beeped version send us a message and we can make one for you.

Advisory: This episode contains stories about when children die. 

The theme for today’s episode is “In my Arms” and in it we will be thinking about when people who are younger die. Today we have three stories for you: Story 1: The Witch: where Victoria and her friends uncover the real story behind their neighbourhood witch. Story 2: Remembering Owen Day: where we honour a boys wish Story 3: Grace: where we talk to the mum and sister of a girl names Gracie who was grace by name and grace by nature.

In this episode you will get a bunch of different kinds of stories about when people who are older die. Story 1: The World Breathing: where Dan’s pop gives him a job to do Story 2: Prepared: where we talk about what we can do to change a culture Story 3: Stars: where we uncover amazing mysterious thoughts...

We're frightened of death.  We don't see it as part of life. We don't want to talk about it. We want to put it in another room and lock it away.
In this podcast series we are going to open the door of the locked room and have a bit of a look around. And in  today’s episode, which is titled Not afraid, we are going to give you a bunch of different kinds of stories that will get us thinking about what death is... and if we talk about it... we might find it makes it a little less scary... Let’s see how we go.  Today we going to share 3 stories with you 

Story 1: Dead Fish: where TJ gets a fish, calls him Dead Fish, and well, you can imagine what happens next. 

Story 2: Minutes away from not being afraid: where we talk to a couple of other people who look after funerals 

Story 3: Meet the Funeral Director: where we do just that...  

The young people from Beyond Empathy introduce their Parting podcast.