After the intensity and shock that accompanies most deaths, when someone arrives at our mortuary, there is a kind of quiet that settles in. A silence full of presence. In which another form of care begins. At Life Rites, mortuary  care does not happen somewhere out of sight or behind closed doors in another part of Sydney. It happens right here, in the same building where families sit with us to share stories, make arrangements, and begin to navigate their loss.