Jason Leach is the inventor and CEO of And Vinyly.

When the album that is life finally reaches its end, why not keep that record spinning for eternity?

Press your ashes or those of a loved one into a vinyl recording to be cherished for generations. 

Record a personal message, your last will and testament, your own soundtrack or just the sound of silence to hear your pops and crackles for the minimal approach.

Bleddyn Butcher was born in London and came to Australia when he was six. In 1980 he returned to London where he first heard The Birthday Party and met Nick Cave. A self-trained photographer, Butcher was on the staff of New Musical Express throughout the eighties, his interests in the music industry and friendships with fellow expatriate musicians providing the impetus for much of his work. He is well known for his photographs of Nick Cave and Dave Graney and has taken publicity images and album covers for bands including U2, The Triffids and The Go Betweens. Over the past fifteen years Butcher's work has appeared in Melody Maker, Vox, Mojo, Rolling Stone and Vogue and he has edited and designed the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fan magazine. He lives in London, where he is currently writing a biography of David McComb.

Celestis is the pioneer and iconic global leader in providing memorial spaceflights.

Since 1994, Celestis has helped families the world over commemorate the lives of their departed loved ones.

Our experienced team – co-founded and led by globally recognized entrepreneur Charles M. Chafer - includes aerospace professionals, dedicated client services and customer support staff, and space launch event management experts. Our directors and advisors include a retired Director of the NASA Kennedy Space Center who directed more than 50 Space Shuttle launches, retired NASA astronauts, and pioneers of the commercial space age.

Dianna is an insurance advisor at MBS Insurance.

Growing up on a sheep farm in western New South Wales, Fanny's journey from rural Australia to the global stage has been nothing short of remarkable. With 2 ARIA Awards, 9 Golden Guitars and critical acclaim for her album HEY DAWN, which debuted at #1 on the ARIA charts, Fanny shows no signs of slowing down. Her unwavering dedication to live performance and storytelling has firmly established her as one of the most esteemed performers in country music. 

Gareth Liddiard is an Australian musician, best known as a founding member of both The Drones and Tropical Fuck Storm.

Jackie Dent is the author of The Great Body Teachers about whole body donation, anatomy, human dissection and forensic science, as well as a journalist who has worked for major media outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times and Reuters.

She has produced radio for The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and curated talks for Tedx and the Ethics Centre. Her career has also included stints with the United Nations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Ossetia and South Sudan. 

James Vlahos is the founder and CEO of Hereafter AI. A conversational AI engineer, contributor to NY Times, Wired, Forbes and author of 2019 Harper Collins book Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think.

Jane Skinner is a retired schoolteacher, HR Head, painter, traveller, volunteer and lover of life.

Klaus Bo is an autodidact professional freelance photographer based in Copenhagen, Denmark, focussed on social and cultural stories, documenting on many different issues, including Iraqi refugees living in Syria, the Coptic garbage city in Egypt, the masked women of southern Iran, the Holi festival in India, the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, refugees in Tunisia fleeing Libya and many more. He has worked with organisations like CARE (Niger, Nepal), Doctors Without Borders (Haiti) and Danish Refugee Council (Iraq, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti).

In 2010/2011 he began working on what has become his life’s work – the Dead and Alive Project, documenting death rituals and how we relate to death around the world. 

The Dead and Alive Project is an ongoing project.

Marieke is a radio queen, author, screenwriter, playwright, podcaster (Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die), producer, artist immersive theatre maker, media presenter and co-creator of Better Off Said: Eulogies for the Living and Dead - a spoken-word art salon celebrating words, stories, and human experiences.

She has penned columns for The Age, The Drum, and Frankie magazine, and written for many television shows, including Laid, Barons, The Family Law, Heartbreak High, and Seven Types of Ambiguity. She was co-curator of international literary salon Women of Letters and a regular panelist on the ABC's Book Club for 11 years. She is a recipient of the 2015 Sidney Myer Fellowship and currently co-curates monthly spoken word event Better Off Said.

Director and founder of Southern Cryonics, Australia's first cryogenic facility, in Holbrook NSW.

Peter became interested in cryonics after reading Robert Ettinger’s book ‘The Prospect of Immortality’ in the late 1960s, and thought that, by now, cryonics would be widely available — sadly this is not the case. He has degrees in Science (chemistry) and Business Administration, and has worked in marketing  for a multi-national company and in private consulting. Currently, he is progressing personal projects to make cryonics more accessible and widespread.

Recompose is a funeral home in Seattle serving clients throughout Washington State and across the country.

Their state-of-the-art facility carefully orchestrates the Recompose human composting process while offering a beautiful space for friends and family to gather and honor the person who has died.

Sarah Bedak is the creative force and lead singer of Lolo Lovina, as well as owner operator of Lolo The Caravan Stage, presenter of Planet Romanistanista on Eastside Radio 89.7FM and works at Romani Arts & Culture Collective.

Bill Edgar is the Coffin Confessor – a one-of-a-kind professional, a man on a mission to make good on these last requests on behalf of his soon-to-be-deceased clients. 

Bill has been many things in this life: son of one of Australia’s most notorious gangsters, homeless street-kid, maximum-security prisoner, hard man, family man, car thief, professional punching bag, philosopher, inventor, private investigator, victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and an activist fighting to bring down the institutions that let it happen. A survivor.

A New Zealand native, Nastassia has a deep connection to the concept of ‘Whanau’ or extended family and community. After completing her degree in Psychology, Nastassia worked in funeral administration for a not-for-profit funeral provider in Victoria. It was during this time she began to imagine a model for funeral care that encompassed her views on family-centred care and ‘whanau’, and it is these concepts that underpin what she has created in the Last Hurrah,

Nastassia is committed to providing an authentic service that is representative of the deceased person and their people. She specialises in creating beautiful and intimate vigil spaces where families can really let go and grieve.

The man who sings and composes under the name Bonnie "Prince" Billy and acts under the name Will Oldham has, over the past three-plus decades, made an idiosyncratic journey through, and an indelible mark on, the worlds of indie rock and independent cinema.