Edited by
Nicholas Albery & Stephanie Wienrich
Published 1999 by
The Befriending Network
in association with
The Natural Death Centre
6 Blackstock Mews, Blackstock Road
London N4 2BT, UK
tel 020 7359 8391
fax 020 7354 3831
e-mail: rhino@dial.pipex.com
web: www.naturaldeath.org.uk
The printed version of this book is now no longer available. The following are available in printed form: The Natural Death Handbook (the Natural Death Centre's main 382-page book focusing on woodland burial, cardboard coffins, funerals, etc) £15.50 incl. p&p by credit card; and Creative Endings, £6.20 incl. p&p. You can place a secure online order
Copyright © Befriending Network & Natural Death Centre 1999
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0 9523280 6 2
Nicholas Albery was a director of the Natural Death Centre and one of the instigators of the Befriending Network.
Every family should have a First Aid manual in case of emergencies which may or may not occur.
Likewise, every family should have a Last Aid manual, for death is an emergency that will definitely occur, confronting each and every member of the family, and it is as well to be prepared.
'Maybe all the years of preparation and training do help'
Dying can be like birth to the power of ten for many people, a terrible and frightening labour, or, to mix metaphors still further, like climbing Everest one weary step after another, without oxygen, inadequately clad, frostbitten and semi-delirious. Maybe in such circumstances all the years of preparation and training do help, enabling the base camp supporters to keep company some of the way, knowing that it may be their turn next for the summit.
The present volume is a joint project between the Befriending Network, a charity which trains and supervises volunteer Befrienders who visit the homes of those with a critical illness, and the Natural Death Centre, a charity which gives advice on inexpensive, environmentally-friendly or family-organised funerals. This booklet is a digest of recent material covering everything from how best to be a companion to those who are dying to how best to arrange burials so as to return the body to nature.
It is a companion volume and update to the far more comprehensive 382-page Natural Death Handbook to which readers are referred. It can be obtained by filling in a reservation card at your local library or by mail order from the Natural Death Centre (in which case it comes with update sheets for £15.50 by credit card incl. UK p&p).
In the meantime, may this booklet help us to become more aware of mortality and suffering and so enable us, as one contributor puts it, "to see with the eyes of the heart".
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