Natural Death Handbook

The Natural Death Centre is an educational charity based in London which has three psychotherapists as its directors. Launched in 1991, it aims to support those dying at home and their carers and to help them arrange funerals. It has a more general aim of helping to improve 'the quality of dying' and, to this end, it arranges workshops on the subject for laypeople, seminars for nurses and doctors training in palliative care, and publishes information in written form and on the internet. It also organises the National Day of the Dead (Sunday April 13 2003 and Sunday April 18 2004) to remember those who have died and focus on our own mortality. See their website at www.naturaldeath.org.uk

This fascinating and useful book provides a wealth of information to people who wish to be involved in supporting those dying...This book wil help those who wish to reclaim the dying process from the professionals and make the final stages of life as natuarl as possible. As a reference book, I will consult it on a regular basis - but I would be hesitant about loaning it to others, for fear of losing it and experiencing unnecessary grief and bereavement.