Before and After - news from the front-line

The Institute for Social Inventions is concerned with improving the quality of living. Its offshoot organisation, The Natural Death Centre, is concerned with improving the quality of dying. The Natural Death Centre has grown and grown since its launch in 1991, and the annual Best Ideas threatened to become swamped with its material. Therefore, on an experimental basis, The Natural Death Centre's material is for this year, 1995, a separate annual book of its own, entitled Before and After - The best new ideas for improving the quality of dying and for inexpensive, green, family-organised funerals. This is available separately for £5-95 inc. p&p (by cheque or by phoning 0181 208 2853 with a credit card). As a bonus for loyal subscribers to the Institute, for this first year it will be sent free to all subscribers and members who can show that they are fully paid up in advance until July 1st 1996 at the £15 (UK) rate or the £17 (abroad) rate or by banker's standing order. For the record, the contents of this book are as follows:

Near-Death Experiences

- 'Fearless' - A movie masterpiece about transcendence, by Prof. John Wren-Lewis
- Unblocking a malfunction in consciousness, by Prof. John Wren-Lewis
- At ease with those who are dying, by Pamela Hipwell

Preparing for dying

- Volunteers visiting the homes of those with life-threatening illnesses, by Diana Senior
- Refusal of artificial feeding as a natural part of dying
- 'Do Not Resuscitate' tattoos
- Safeguarding the dignity of those dying in hospital, by Valerie Yule
- Improving care of the dying in residential care homes
- Tips for those dying at home
- The psychedelic experience
- A Death Plan
- The Natural Death Centre
- Advance Funeral Wishes
- The Natural Death Centre

After Death - 'D-i-y' Funerals and Remembering

- An Internet Garden of Remembrance
- Immortality through future computerised emulations
- Sharing grief in cyberspace
- The importance of dying at home, by Tim Watson
- A refusal to supply coffins
- Heaven on Earth's coffins as bookcases
- A coffin bag to sling over the shoulder, by Steve Andrews
- Coffins made of flax or cork
- A green burial stretcher, by Barbara Butler
- Refrigerated plate for bodies kept at home, by Jean Heva
- A blue coffin for a ritual of transformation, by Sophie Fiennes
- A secular funeral, by Pamela Openshaw
- I became the 'Funeral Director', by Lili
- A Family Arranged Funeral - 'no stranger touched her', by Judith A Wilson
- A very beautiful funeral, by John Bradfield
- Jan Page's green burial
- Funerals as networking events, by Greg Wright
- The cryonic suspension blues, by John Seymour
- A European Day of the Dead in Spring, by Pamela Openshaw
- All Souls day used to be on May 13th, by Prudence Jones

Letters

- Looking on cancer with an eye of hope
- For anyone wanting green burial in Wales, by Liz Russell
- Ignorance of burial law, by Simon Truelove

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