Sooner or Later

Table of Contents

Preparing for Dying

  1. English Day of the Dead 1997
  2. The befriender - representing the needs of a person dying at home
  3. Suggestions for preparing for dying
  4. Spending a year living as if you were going to die
  5. The Hindu ideal of conscious death
  6. A children's hospice can be better than home
  7. Tasks for a person who is dying
  8. 90 per cent prefer to die at home
  9. Warehousing of the dying
  10. A Centre to help cancer patients sustain active lives
  11. Dying in a nursing home with the doctor's help
  12. Colombia legalises euthanasia
  13. DPT-assisted psychotherapy in terminal illness
  14. Is artificial nutrition right whatever the patient's condition?
  15. Natural death while not eating
  16. A painless death in the cat's mouth
  17. Giving a person permission to die
  18. How to be sure someone is dead
  19. Donations to charity in return for organ donation

After Death

  1. Registering a death outside your area
  2. How to make a funeral gown
  3. A charity in league with a funeral giant
  4. An undertaker's perspective on death
  5. Wanting to hold the stillborn baby
  6. Burying a daughter on private land
  7. Advice for d-i-y funerals in West Sussex
  8. An inner cardboard coffin, with a re-usable outer coffin
  9. A simple funeral using a flatpack coffin
  10. A family-organised funeral
  11. A farm burial described
  12. Hints for those organising funerals themselves
  13. A tour of graves by bereaved parents
  14. The practical problems of death and dying
  15. The Office of Fair Trading's warning to funeral directors
  16. The difficulty for the lay person in obtaining a death permit in California
  17. Funeral rip-offs in the States
  18. Down to Earth Eco-Coffins
  19. Mystery shrimp redefines death
  20. Mortuary body arrested for streaking
  21. The Dos and Don'ts of grieving
  22. A personal 'shrine' can help one cope with grief
  23. Bereavement - a truly terrible experience
  24. Memorial garden that flowers on the anniversary

Letters

  1. A natural death song
  2. Imported 'wildflowers' could threaten biodiversity
  3. Cardboard coffin prices marked up for 'fashionability'

 

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