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  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9781846042003
  • Imprint: Rider
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $35.00

The New Natural Death Handbook



The completely revised and expanded third edition, an essential manual for dealing with death: either one's own or that of friends and family

Today, an increasing number of people want to organise at least part of a funeral for themselves, without depending on funeral directors.

The New Natural Death Handbook shows you how to do everything from ordering a coffin to hiring a horse-drawn hearse to finding a woodland burial ground (where a tree is planted for each grave instead of having a headstone). It also explains how to arrange a burial on private land and how to set up a woodland burial ground as a business or charity.

  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9781846042003
  • Imprint: Rider
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $35.00

About the authors

Nicholas Albery

Poem for the Day was the brainchild of the social inventor and author Nicholas Albery, who tragically was killed in a car accident as Poem for the Day Two was getting off the ground. Royalties from the books go to Nicholas Albery's charitable foundations, under the banner of the Institute for Social Inventions.

Stephanie Wienrich

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

Praise for The New Natural Death Handbook

Gives excellent advice

Cosmopolitan

Demonstrates to people dissatisfied with conveyor-belt funerals that there are kinder alternatives

The Times

A fascinating read

Sunday Times

From the spiritual and mystical to the practical and administrative, vital information is included on how to organise a funeral, how to care for someone dying at home and how to come to terms with bereavement

Top Sante Magazine

Full of amazing advice and information

Sunday Independent