‘My family didn’t want to come’: Ray Martin on attending his own funeral – and facing up to death

‘I’ve met people who have seen ghosts. I can’t say to them that they’re bullshitting’ … Martin in Ray Martin: The Last Goodbye, which explores Australia’s changing attitudes and approaches to death. Photograph: Dylan Coker/SBS

Ray Martin is dead.

It was news to me, too. Standing next to me at the Roslyn Packer theatre in Walsh Bay, he is doing an excellent impression of being alive.