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Table of Contents

Award Winners

  1. Natural Death Centre Awards

 

The Natural Death Centre

  1. 1996 - an exhausting year

 

Preparing for Dying

  1. What does someone dying need?
  2. Joy within the crevices of cancer and fear
  3. Homesharers
  4. Keep family informed every 15 minutes
  5. Hospital cleaners to care for terminally ill
  6. A hundred pages of forms for your last wishes
  7. 'Being with dying' - model projects
  8. Do people die as they've lived?
  9. The good death
  10. 'Comeditation' - exhaling together with sounds
  11. Fasting to a 'comfortable death'
  12. Australian territory legalises euthanasia
  13. Death awareness leads to moral extremism
  14. How to avoid misdiagnosing death
  15. Lower life insurance for agreeing to sell one's organs

 

After Death

  1. The Dead Citizens Charter
  2. Funeral directors still failing to obey their own code
  3. Funeral company's high pressure tactics
  4. Common misconceptions within the funeral trade
  5. The greening of a cemetery
  6. Death - a return to the sacred grove
  7. The newest green burial grounds
  8. The latest on planning permission for d-i-y burials
  9. Burial in a Connemara blanket
  10. A family-organised funeral
  11. The dead good funeral
  12. Funeral rituals inspired by the Maoris
  13. Funeral balloons threaten turtles
  14. Tribal funeral practices around the world
  15. The Celebration Box
  16. A tombstone with flat-screen video
  17. Neo-classical ceramic memorial urns
  18. Distributing ashes to Poste Restantes
  19. Make your own video message memorial
  20. Obituaries for the ordinary
  21. Memorial services for the living
  22. Making love in the afterlife
  23. Virtual immortality for everyone alive today

 

Letters

  1. Canal boat cruises during terminal illness
  2. Messages written on papier machÈ coffins
  3. Centre for Living and Dying in the States
  4. Practising for dying
  5. Seeing and touching the dead body
  6. A recognised sign to indicate bereavement

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