and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming, fancy caskets, and elaborate funerals, they have embraced a range of natural options that are redefining a better way of death. Mark Harris examines this new green burial underground, leading you into natural cemeteries and domestic graveyards, taking you aboard boats from which ashes and memorial "reef balls" are cast into the sea. Appendices detail everything you need to know, from exact costs and laws to natural burial providers and their contact information. Scribner, 2008, 205 PP. Paper $15.00


Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness


By Joanne Lynn and Joan Harrold Handbook for Mortals is warmly addressed to all those who wish to approach the final years of life with greater awareness of what to expect and greater confidence about how to make the end of our lives a time of growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection.Written by Dr. Joanne Lynn and a team of expert physicians, this book provides equal measures of practical information and wise counsel. All practical aspects are explored, and included are moving firsthand insights into a profoundly important process, one that is increasingly kept hidden in our culture. Includes inspiring quotations from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Jane Kenyon, and others. Oxford University Press, 2001, 256 PP. Paper $21.95


In Beauty: A Quaker Approach to End-of-life Care By Kirsten Backstrom The author, a Friend and hospice worker, considers Quaker forms of faithfulness which are important to the process of caring for others at the end of life. She finds these forms to be important, too, in exploring and learning from death and facing one's own mortality. This is a moving essay written lovingly through stories. Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 2001, 32 PP. Paper $6.50


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