• The Natural Death Handbook (NOT the book below) is the Centre's main book, published November 2003. It describes in detail all the 180 or so WOODLAND BURIAL grounds in the UK, open or planned, mail order cardboard and regular coffins, how to organise a funeral with or without a funeral director, recommended funeral directors, cemeteries, crematoria in the UK, best funeral shops and suppliers of funeral goods such as urns and body bags, the text of the Advance Funeral Wishes Form, Death Plan and Living Will (the printed versions of these forms can be ordered by secure credit card online), the law surrounding burial on your farm land, caring for someone dying at home, financial and other preparations for one's own death, writing a will, probate, Near-Death Experiences, grieving, etc. The new 382-page 4th edition of The Natural Death Handbook can be ordered online by secure credit card order (£15-50 incl. UK 1st class p&p. The Centre endeavours to post orders on the day of receipt). The advantages of buying the book from the Natural Death Centre, a charitable project, are that the Centre includes the latest updates and other leaflets - also your support goes directly to the Centre. 'A fascinating read' (Sunday Times); 'Demonstrates to people dissatisfied with conveyor-belt funerals that there are kinder alternatives' (The Times); 'Gives excellent advice' (Cosmopolitan); 'Inspiring' (Church Times); 'I'd advise anyone to get hold of a copy of The New Natural Death Handbook, altogether a very good thing' (Green Magazine).

    Natural Death & Woodland Burial
    Table of Contents

    1. The Natural Death Centre's progress
    2. Living or dying - both are good
    3. Ending the cult of the deathbed
    4. Day courses on death
    5. A Welsh Day of the Dead?
    6. Pagan rituals and prayers
    7. The dying heart and the mind
    8. The rights of the dying
    9. The Project on Death in America
    10. Physician assisted suicide
    11. Advert for new mother
    12. 15,000mg of morphine per day
    13. Exhaling on the sound of 'Ah'
    14. Comeditation
    15. The pitfalls of spiritual befriending
    16. Gathering one's own caregiving circle
    17. The Befriending Network's plans
    18. Abandoning the dying
    19. Pre-listing your hospital visitors
    20. Death plans and preparing for dying
    21. Three teams of bearers for a woodland burial
    22. Caring for the body after death
    23. SCI's 'payments' to nurses
    24. A family organised cremation in Wales
    25. My father's family-arranged sea burial
    26. Sky burial
    27. Charging the coffin into the cremator
    28. Non-crumpling cardboard coffin
    29. £40 chipboard coffin
    30. Coffin transported in three wheeler
    31. Natural Death Care Project (California)
    32. The wider natural death movement
    33. Death as experienced in other cultures
    34. Local seed for woodland burial grounds?
    35. Setting up a woodland burial ground
    36. Goodbye Dad - The death and green funeral of Frank Butler
    37. Philipa's green & final journey
    38. A woodland burial network for the bereaved
    39. A hessian burial stretcher
    40. A Celebration of Life facilitator
    41. Rituals for Remarkable Times (funeral designing)
    42. Online Museum of Death
    43. Funerals for neglected people - an assertion of human worth
    44. Campaign for Widowed Fathers' Benefit
    45. Those grieving need a new vocabulary
    46. The roller-coaster of grief
    47. Grief is outdated evolutionary mental programming
    48. The time-smoothed stone of grief
    49. Collector of Tears

    Letters

    1. What can happen without a Living Will
    2. Improved eyesight near death
    3. Woodland burial in the States

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