Last Aid Manual
Table of Contents

1. Foreword: Last Aid manual
2. When Death Comes
3. Living Wills to protect one's dignity and independence
4. Life-threatening illness - its psychological dimensions
5. The four tasks for living and dying
6. A Handbook for Mortals
7. C - Because cowards get cancer too
8. Paid leave for workers to tend the dying
9. The relief of surrendering one's independence
10. Art therapy for those who are terminally ill
11. Psychotherapy as an aid for those who are dying
12. A programme of music for those who are dying
13. The grace in dying - how we are transformed spiritually as we die
14. Accepting death and emerging spiritually
15. Seeing with the eye of the heart
16. Dying at home - the death of David
17. 'Real' doctors don't cry
18. MDMA for a father dying of pancreatic cancer
19. Dancing to the rhythm of a father's dying
20. Death before birth
21. Creating a burial ground for community members
22. A funeral service and burial at home
23. Nature reserve burial in the States
24. Outdoor cremation of a stillborn baby
25. Reducing the body to a wired skeleton
26. Muslim and other alternative funerals
27. Eulogies capturing the essence of the individual
28. How funeral directors bypass churches
29. Funeral directors' noncompliance with their own code
30. Nursing home and undertakers kipnapping the body
31. Vicars could read out family's tributes at funeral
32. Send flowers a month after the funeral
33. Donations to the surviving partner not to charity
34. Schools helping children to manage loss
35. Memorial services for bad relationships and Ethical Wills

Letters

1. Poetry at the end of life
2. Poems are telegrams from the soul
3. Scottish natural death and green burial group
4. An Australian centre for natural death?