Molly Carlile

	Article of the Month 06 “Four Funerals in One Day” launched to much acclaim! The 9th National Palliative Care Conference conducted in Melbourne in the last week of August 2007 was attended by many international, national and local members of palliative care services in addition to members from other health and academic specialties. Attendees were provided with a feast of contemporary information and research, but were also treated to the premiere of the play “Four Funerals in One Day”. Written by Alan Hopgood in collaboration with Molly Carlile, the play explores the role of story telling in palliative care. Download the full document of this article byKevin Larkins, Executive Officer, Palliative Care Victoria (Article taken from Palliative Care Victoria Newsletter No 75. October 2007)
	Article of the Month 05 "A Good Death: Possibility or Pipe Dream?" Earlier in the month I was approached by ABC radio program “Life Matters” to be interviewed about death. When I asked what the program was focusing on specifically, they told me “a good death”. This may seem like an oxymoron to most people as we tend to think death is a lot of things, but rarely “good”. For me, however, it made me go over some old ground and revisit my own views on “a good death”. Download the full document of this article by Molly.
	Article of the Month 04 What can we do to remove the stigma of death, instil in our kids an understanding of the process and allow them to speak freely about their thoughts and fears, before someone they love dies? Find out more in this article by Molly, recently published in the March issue of Nursing Review. www.nursingreview.com.au
	Article of the Month 03 This month’s article is the continuation of the article I put up last month, by my friend Dr. Peter Ellyard. Peter is a man well ahead of his time. A quantum thinker who doesn’t allow himself to be limited by convention! If you would like to read some more of Peter’s inspirational work, follow the link to his website, or check out one of his numerous books, my favourite being, “Ideas for the new Millennium” published by Melbourne University Press. "Civilising Globalisation: the roles of governments, communities and corporations" By Dr Peter Ellyard In an article published in The Australian on 1 January 2000, Nelson Mandela, in his role as a Nobel Peace Laureate said: “Together we live in a global neighbourhood and it is not to the long term benefit of any if there islands of wealth in a sea of poverty. We need globalisation of responsibility as well . Above all that is the challenge of the new century.” Mandela expresses his concern in these remarks that so far globalisation is not delivering sufficient equity between the Earth’s peoples... Download the full document in PDF format.
	Article of the Month 02 The article for the Month for December is by my friend Dr Peter Ellyard. Peter wrote and delivered this paper a few years ago now, but I think it’s timely, given the recent return of the “Cowboy” approach to world affairs, to revisit his ideas about globalisation and ‘Planetism’. Peter is a Futurist and the founder of the Preferred Futures Institute (I’ll let you know a whole lot more about him next month), but in the meantime, if after reading this you want to know more, you can go to Peter’s website: http://www.preferredfutures.org "From Modernism to Planetism" By Dr Peter Ellyard In 1967 Kenneth Boulding wrote a famous essay called The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth and in 1969 Buckminster Fuller wrote a book entitled Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Both authors drew on the metaphor of the Apollo Mission, and particularly the famous picture taken from Apollo 8 which showed the beautiful, blue and white, fragile Earth against a lifeless moonscape in the foreground. Just after the near disaster of Apollo 13, which was the subject of a recent film, the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant used the metaphor of the Apollo Mission that nearly ended in disaster to promote the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, indicating that the whole planet was indeed in the situation of Apollo 13... Download the full document in PDF format.
	Article of the Month 01 “Tapping into the great ‘techy’ psyche” By Molly Carlile As those of you who have read any of my work will know, I am on a mission! That mission is to educate the public about death and to encourage discussions within families, communities and workplaces about grief, loss and meaning, so that when we are individually faced with a significant death (as we all inevitably will be), we will at least understand the process and hopefully, be more understanding of our personal responses and the responses of those around us... Download the full document in PDF format.