This book by Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick presents “accounts by the dying and those who have been with the dying in their final hours” in order to help readers to see and understand death as a process, not a single end moment. The evidence gathered here “suggests we are more than brain function, and that something—soul or spirit or consciousness—will continue in some form or another for a while at least.” The ultimate goal being that with understanding we may all be helped in getting closer to having a “good death.”

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Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth
Today, people are looking to the possibility of more environmentally sustainable death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening Death,…