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Our last best act : planning for the end of our lives to protect the people and places we love /

As we begin to contemplate death and to embark on practical planning for life's end, many of us long to leave a legacy beyond a transfer of money and property--one that ensures a sustainable earth for our loved ones, our communities, and generations to come. But where do we even begin? With the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDuff, Mallory D. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Stevens, Becca
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Broadleaf Books, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Matters of life, death, and earth: finding a map for the end of our lives
  • The documents class: the paperwork of death and dying
  • Innovative undertakers: lessons learned from funeral homes
  • Dying and its aftermath: end-of-life doulas and home funerals
  • When death protects the land we love: natural burial in conservation cemeteries
  • Bury me close to home: green burial in conventional cemeteries
  • The container store: shrouds, pine caskets, mushroom suits, and cardboard boxes
  • Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: from flame cremation to aquamation
  • Giving back: body donation, decomposition, and human composting
  • Write it down and talk about it: planning directives in extraordinary times.