We are the Good Death Impact Network
A group of people who give their time to work together on the shared goal of improving how people die in Australia
Who we are
We’re a group of passionate people brought together by our shared drive to create change and improve outcomes for everyone when someone dies. This includes the dying person and the people around them.
We come from all walks of life. Some of us work directly in the death space such as palliative care, funeral directors and death administration. While others of us work in health, technology, communication, social innovation and more.
What we do
Under the guidance of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) and with funding from The Wicking Trust, we are focused on driving systemic change in the end of life system.
We provide a supportive environment for sharing insights, guidance, support, and connections, to help increase the impact of our individual efforts. We use our funding to support member-driven innovative projects that are aimed at improving death outcomes.
What if everyone living in Australia had better end of life experiences?
Our initiatives
Game
We made an award-winning game! Getting to know and understand your death plan couldn’t be easier or funnier than with our unique icebreaking conversation game - Carked It! Designed to be played with friends and family of all ages.
Carked it! 
Program
Being able to talk about grief is important but what happens when most of can’t find the right words. Find out what our members are doing to give people the confidence to talk about grief easily with anyone.
Find out more at the Showing Up for Grief Program website.
Showing up for grief
SA Death FestivalEvent
An in-person annual event at Centennial Park in the surrounds of the beautiful Adelaide hills, the SA Death Festival provides an opportunity for people to come together, learn, demystify death and create conversations related to end of life.
Change makers working together to create good death outcomes.
Ways we work to improve how people die in Australia
Collaborate
We work from a systems perspective. Our members have different skill sets, varied backgrounds and perspectives.
Shared goals
We share the same goals - to make end of life better for everyone.
Actions
We work collectively and individually on real world projects to create positive death outcomes.
Why we do it
It’s inevitable that we’re all going to die. So, don’t you want to die:
peacefully
supported physically and emotionally
in line with your values
with your life in order
in a way that helps you and your loved ones process grief?
We believe these are important elements to a good death, but unfortunately the system is not set up to achieve these good death outcomes. We’re working to change that.
How it works
We use a systems approach - mapping the system from where each member stands, and identifying leverage points to shift conditions that perpetuate problems with the way people generally die in Australia.
Through this work, we’ve identified six change levers that could impact the end of life system. Read about them in our Systems Playbook.
Every month we meet online and discuss the work we’re doing both individually and as a network. We look at ways we can help each other, and identify how the impact of our activities can be improved and amplified through our shared resources.
Network membership
We have members from diverse backgrounds, bringing a breadth of skills, experience and purpose which makes us able to achieve our goals.
We’re always looking for new members who want to contribute to our work, get in touch today to find out more.
