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
The Kind of Grief Society Doesn’t Recognise With Linda Rowley
By the Time You Notice Alzheimer’s, It’s Already Too Late With Greg Sutherland
Dementia Is Terminal – But We Are Not Told How With Theresa Flavin
Suicide, Success and the Trauma We Carry With Penny Locaso
ENCORE: Beyond the Grave: Fighting Heteronormativity in Funerals and Weddings
Fan Mail
I’ve really been enjoying listening to your podcast. I studied to be a death doula as research for a show that I still haven’t created but it lead me into wanting to do advocacy work to get people to have those conversations. I’d love to move onto the “Deathosphere” but $$ is holding me back. I already work in a gig economy as a performance artist. I guess I’ll get there one day. I’ve been travelling a lot for work and been listening to you on the road. Thanks
Australia