Nyx Funerals

31/03/2026

26/03/2026

What is the difference between a will and an advance care directive?

What’s the difference between a will and an Advance Care Directive?

It’s never too early to get your end-of-life wishes in order.
Doing so can really support the people around you in caring for you when it matters most.

For more information, The Final Course is on April 22nd.
Link in bio.

25/03/2026

Planning for the end of life doesn’t have to feel overwhelming or something you do alone.

✨ The Final Course (Online) ✨ 22nd April 7-9 pm sliding scale $35-$75
Join me for a small, guided group session where we gently walk through the essential end-of-life documents, your death care wishes, and the options available to you.

Over two hours, I’ll support you in a space that is clear, calm and non-judgmental. Where all questions, feelings, and uncertainties are welcome.

This is about clarity, choice, and care for yourself and the people you love.

Limited spots available.
Link in bio to learn more.

23/03/2026

Nyx Autumn Newsletter is out!

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I chat green funerals, memorial gardens, what I’ve been up to recently and upcoming deathy events!

12/12/2025

📣 Summer newsletter is out today!

🎄 In it I discuss holiday grief and my families pudding day ritual.

🌹 as well as my new offering ‘The Final Course’ death admin support.

✍️ Sign up via the link in my bio

11/12/2025

❤️ being an independent funeral celebrant means I’m not attached to any one funeral home.

❤️ therefore I can refer clients to different funeral homes for body care and transportation based on their values, circumstances and finances

♥️ I can spend more uninterrupted time with a family in their grief and bereavement as I work for myself and what I set as a standard of care.

❤️ I’m never trying to upsell items or services to meet a quota.

♥️ I can have a sliding scale for accessibility for folks with low income or from marginalized communities.

❤️ for a memorial you don’t need a funeral home. Possibly not even a celebrant. But I can provide advice, support and consultation.

10/12/2025

Pudding Day: A recipe for holiday grieving.

A new blogpost I wrote for the wonderful folks at . Linked in my bio.

A post around holiday grieving and my families tradition of honoring those we’ve lost by ‘stirring in the love’ each pudding day.

♥️ I’d love to hear about any holiday rituals you do for those who’ve died? Please comment below or D.M me.

11/11/2025

✨ A new offering by Nyx Funerals! ✨

Let’s have a dinner party together, or maybe just a cuppa and some bickies at the kitchen table while we chat about death care planning.

So many of us have unfinished business when it comes to our funeral wishes, advance care directives, wills, and end-of-life decision makers.

That’s why I’ve created The Final Course: Kitchen table discussions on death and dying.

🕯️ Gather your friends or family
💬 Talk openly about death care choices
📄 Learn what documents you need to complete
🕰️ Set a timeline to get it all done
📞 And get ongoing support via the Nyx Hotline.

It’s all part of The Final Course , equal parts practical and heart-centred.

Sliding scale pricing available.
Based in Coburg — I can travel up to 1.5 hours from Naarm (Melbourne CBD).

👉 Tap the link in bio to fill out an expression of interest form and to receive more information.

In life and death,

Joh Nyx.

07/11/2025

On ‘Halloween’ (which in Australia occurs on the Gaelic festival of the peak of spring called Beltane) I spent visiting the Coburg Cemetery and going on a self-guided tour.

You can learn so much about the history of a place including the renowned public figures, waves of immigration, historic events and circumstances of how people died by visiting your local cemetery.

Often some of the only public ‘green spaces’ available in a locality but one that also holds such a rich reverence and beauty. A large display of public memorialization. My beautiful headdress is by milliner

22/10/2025

Nyx Spring Newsletter coming out tonight. Discussing ceremonies I’ve loved, death positive events coming up and my ever growing reading list. Sign up to my newsletter via link in my bio. 📸 Untitled by Noelle

25/09/2025

Observing ritual. Ritual is how we as humans connect and make rites of passage and moments in time important and meaningful. We in secular settler communities have often lost connection to ways we use to honor, celebrate and mourn collectively in community. That’s why in a funeral ceremony it’s the ritual element that I so dearly love. The liminal space that is opened up through a series of simple sequence of actions. This photo is from the ‘love letters to my broken heart exhibition’ as part of the Melbourne writers festival. Where 300 letters to broken hearts were written, folded and contained before being burnt.

20/09/2025

Yesterday we bid farewell to C. An adventurer, musician and a dearly loved human. A beautiful ceremony of story, song, tributes and a tree planting ritual was held . His cremains were planted in with a flowering gum now his forever shade. What I loved most was the sacred and the profane. The Italian opera as the ashes were gently placed in the hole alongside the mechanics of dirt and shovels and a ride on mower driving in with plastic tubs. The human always has an important place in ceremony. Rest in peace. I’ve absolutely loved getting to know you through your loved ones, your music and your values.