Reimagining Death
Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials
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Honor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-death care
Natural, legal, and innovative after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to care for a loved one after death and do so in creative and healing ways. Reimagining Death offers stories and guidance for home funeral vigils, advance after-death care directives, green burials, and conscious dying. When we bring art and beauty, meaningful ritual, and joy to ease our loss and sorrow, we are greening the gateway of death and returning home to ourselves, to the wisdom of our bodies, and to the earth.
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Funeral consultant Herring urges readers to shun the impersonal, environmentally taxing approach of modern death in her stimulating debut. She draws from a highly syncretic new age approach to highlight the positive impact of vigils, caring for one's own dead, and green burial practices. Opening the book with the death of her own mother, Herring writes of having to coax her resistant father and siblings to have a funeral service in their home. She shares stories of clients and friends who have buried loved ones without using traditional funeral arrangements, including a Tibetan Buddhist with exacting preparation requirements. Herring also includes an affecting story of a home vigil for a young woman who died in a car crash. The range of traditions, approaches, and styles Herring describes attests to the versatility of home funerals, and the practical information at the end of each chapter guides readers through, for instance, the legalities of transporting bodies, the least environmentally harmful body disposal methods, and how one can prepare for the end of life. With clear advice and reasoning, Herring helpfully nudges readers toward less clinical, more personal, and more active planning for the deaths of their loved ones and themselves.
