Acknowledgements \ 1. What's in this guide? \ 2. Take your time \ 3. Take charge \ 4. Take stock \ 5. Why do we have funerals? \ 6. What is a green funeral? \ 7. Burial or cremation? \ 8.

Cremation \ 9. Burial \ 10. Decision time - burial or cremation? \ 11. What happens when we die? \ 12. Caring for the body - why would you want to? \ 13. Caring for the body - what needs to be done? \ 14. Caring for the body - doing it all yourself \ 15. Embalming \ 16.

Going to see someone who has died \ 17. Decision time - caring for the body \ 18. Style your funeral \ 19. The crematorium and other funeral venues \ 20. Who will lead the funeral ceremony? \ 21. A life-centred funeral \ 22. Do it your way \ 23. Can a funeral be fun? \ 24.

Set your goals \ 25. Choose your ingredients \ 26. Create a sense of occasion \ 27. Who will be the host? \ 28. Decision time - celebrant and ceremony \ 29. Construct the ceremony \ 30. Tribute-writing tips \ 31. Funeral food \ 32.

Funeral directors - what are they like and what do they know? \ 33. Should funeral directors be regulated? \ 34. Funeral directors - what do they do? \ 35. Funeral directors - what do they cost? \ 36. Funeral directors - telling them apart \ 37. Funeral directors - find out who's out there \ 38. Decision time - buy only what you want \ 39. 101 coffins and a shroud \ 40.

Final rides - hearses \ 41. Marking the spot - memorials \ 42. What to do with the ashes? \ 43. What does dying feel like? \ 44. Planning your own death and funeral.