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ICYMI: You don't have to die to have a funeral.

In case you missed it, living funerals are all the rage.

A nonprofit organisation called ‘death over dinner‘ is on a mission to remove the taboo around death. They want us to celebrate the important people in our lives while they’re still around to hear it.

Mia Freedman, Monique Bowley and Alys Gagnon unpack the practicalities of staging a living funeral and reflect on whether they’d have one.