"Before and After"

Table of Contents

Natural Death Centre

• Natural Death Centre Awards 1995
• The Natural Death Centre, 1995

Near-Death Experiences

• Fearless - A movie masterpiece about transcendence
• Unblocking a malfunction in consciousness
• At ease with those who are dying

Preparing for dying

• Volunteers visiting the homes of those with life-threatening illnesses
• Refusal of artificial feeding as a natural part of dying
• 'Do Not Resuscitate' tattoos
• Safeguarding the dignity of those dying in hospital
• Improving care of the dying in residential care homes
• Tips for those dying at home
• A prayer for preparing for dying
• A death plan
• Advance Funeral Wishes

Funerals and Remembering

• An Internet Garden of Remembrance
• Immortality through future computerised emulations
• Sharing grief in cyberspace
• The importance of dying at home
• A refusal to supply coffins
• Heaven on Earth's coffins as bookcases
• A coffin bag to sling over the shoulder
• Coffins made of flax or cork
• Willow coffins
• A green burial stretcher
• Refrigerated plate for bodies kept at home
• A blue coffin for a ritual of transformation
• A secular funeral
• I became the 'Funeral Director'
• A grave that took four days to dig
• A family-arranged funeral - 'no stranger touched her'
• A very beautiful funeral
• Woodland burials in South Yorkshire and a funeral planning video
• Jan Page's green burial
• Funerals as networking events
• The cryonic suspension blues
• A European Day of the Dead in spring
• All Souls day used to be on May 13th

Letters

• Looking on cancer with an eye of hope
• For anyone wanting green burial in Wales
• A Natural Death Centre in Australia
• Ignorance of burial law
• News wanted
• Publications available

Edited by

Nicholas Albery

Matthew Mezey Mary McHugh and Marie Papworth

Published September 1995 by

The Natural Death Centre

6 Blackstock Mews

Blackstock Road

London N4 2BT

tel 0871 288 2098

fax 020 7354 3831 e-mail: rhino@dial.pipex.com

This book is now out of print. Available: The Natural Death Handbook, £15-50 inc. first class p&p, which can be ordered securely online.

Copyright © The Natural Death Centre 1995

The Natural Death Centre is a charitable project which supports those who are dying at home and provides information to those trying to organise funerals with or without the help of funeral directors. It also works more generally to help improve the quality of dying, through research, awards, publications, meetings, salons, dinners and an annual English Day of the Dead. The Natural Death Centre has set up two subsidiary organisations, The Association of Nature Reserve Burial Grounds, which promotes the Green burial grounds set up by councils, farmers and wildlife trusts; and the Befriending Network, which provides volunteers to visit those who are critically ill at home. The Centre has World Wide Web pages on Internet, at the address http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 0 9523280 1 1

Printed by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wilts SN14 6QA.

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