Funerals and How to Improve Them

Part 1 Introduction: the final check-out; death and national character; in the midst of life?. Part 2 Problems: nature's way; the female way; the tragedy of the crematorium rose; the cost of funerals; religious funerals, secular people; beyond taboo. Part 3 Principles: what is a funeral?; whose funeral is it anyway?; flow; participation; eatinhg, talking, singing; fitting it all together. Part 4 Places: journeying; the crematorium; the burial ground; memorials. Part 5 Issues: secular funerals of life-centred funerals?; the afterlife; funerals and forgiveness; doing it yourself; the funeral trade; funerals for babies.