Don't Be Caught Dead
Don't Be Caught Dead is a podcast about the conversations most of us avoid — until we’re forced to have them.
Each episode brings you honest, accessible conversations with experts across end-of-life, health, legal, financial, and care industries, alongside people with lived experience, to help you better understand your end-of-life choices and how to prepare a practical backup plan if you fall ill, become incapacitated, or die.
Hosted by Catherine Ashton, award-winning speaker and founder of Critical Info, the podcast is grounded in lived experience — created so other people don’t have to go through what her family went through.
From wills, powers of attorney, funerals, and estate administration, to caring, grief, sudden illness, and navigating systems when life doesn’t go to plan, Don’t Be Caught Dead exists to build confidence, clarity, and preparedness — before a crisis hits.
Don't Be Caught Dead
Latest Episodes
What Happens When You Take Back Your Story with Barry Du Bois
I’ve had many conversations about death, grief, and what it means to be prepared… but this one felt different.Barry Du Bois is someone many Australians know from television. A builder, presenter, and now a powerful mental health advocate...
A Mother’s Story of Loss and Love with Emily Mir
There are moments in life that divide everything into before and after… this conversation with Emily Mir holds one of those stories.Emily is a mother, storyteller, and advocate whose life was forever shaped by the stillbirth of her son, ...
If I Could Do It Again, I’d Bring Her Home with Annie Caulfield
If I had my time again, I wouldn’t leave her there… I would have brought her home.In this episode, I sit down with Annie Caulfield, a Brisbane-based death care practitioner and founder of Grassroots Death Care. Annie’s work is centred ar...
The Questions I Lived With After Suicide Loss with Todd Maguire
Trigger Warning: This episode includes conversations around suicide, trauma, and grief. Please listen with care.—I’ve sat in many conversations around death… but this one stayed with me in a different way.Today, I’m speakin...
Death Isn’t Wrong, It’s Part of Life with Annie Raser-Rowland
Have you ever thought about what it really means to live well… and how often we’re told that “more” is the answer?More things. More experiences. More consumption.But what if that’s not it at all?In this episode, I’m joined ...
Fan Mail
Hi Catherine, Vanessa here 😁 Thankyou so much! I loved the last Hurrah interview, they are such amazing people and I resonate with EVERYTHING they are doing and aspiring to do. Such a beautiful discussion, well done! 😁
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