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Cover

Title Page

Foreword

Introduction

The Things They Say about Dying

PART ONE

Befriend Death When You Are Young

There’s a Time to Give and a Time to go

The Secret of Life is the Secret of Death

Death Puts Life in Perspective

When Faced, Death Builds Valour

The Ache Inside Us

Make Death your Anam Cara

Start Now

Picture Death

Master the Fear of Death

The Faces of Death

See Eternity in a Grain of Sand

Live Life as a Journey

Start With Life’s Little Deaths

Practise Going to Sleep

Practise Making Transitions

Practise Being on your Deathbed

Practise Praying

Get to Know your body

Move with Life’s Rhythms

Come Through Rough Passages

Red, White and Blue Deaths

Reach for the Edges

Review your Life

Be Present to the Dying

Enjoy the Communion of Saints

Encounter Angels

Transformations

Be Prepared!

PART TWO

Grow Before You Go

Live Simply

Do it Now!

Fulfil your Destiny

Listen to your Soul Thoughts

Face Pain

Know your Life Story

Share your Life Story

Live Out of your Vulnerability

Speak Out your Anguish

Engage with the Stages of Life

Be a Pilgrim

Accumulate Timeless Treasure

Does Death Rob Life of its Meaning?

Become free to Move on

PART THREE

Go Prepared

What Will you Leave Behind?

Don’t Leave a Muddle

Make a Will

Apply the Golden Rule to your Descendants

Express your Feelings of Loss

Acknowledge the Stages of Grief

Be Real

Free the Trapped Spirit

Release Compassion

Listen to your Dreams

At the First Glimpse of Death’s Approach

The Healing Power of Acceptance

Prepare to Leave

Plan the Funeral

Celebrate a Life

When would you Like to be Remembered?

‘Honour Me, Don’t Humour Me’

How to Say What we Want to Say

Dear Grace, When I am Dying…

Saying our Goodbyes

Parting Gifts

Epitaphs

A Way to Meditate at Death

Fun on the Way out

Last Wishes

Final Words

Farewell Blessings

Anointed for Burial

Choose your Time to go

Early Exit or Encore?

On the Day Death Knocks at the Door

PART FOUR

Create a Good ‘Departure Lounge’

Draw up Your ‘Departure Lounge’ Guidelines

Anything to Declare?

Forgiveness Parlour

Music

Prayers

Angels

Songs

Poets’ Corner

Bible Readings

Things to Look at

Something to Hold

Diaries, Albums and Videos

A Private Place

Liturgy for the Great Passage

PART FIVE

The Other Side

The Long Jump

Gone Where?

Life is Just Beginning

When the Saints go Marching in

The Place of Resurrection

A Veil thin as Gossamer

The Morning After

Out of the Body Experiences

Life after Life

What is the other World Like?

What Happens after Death?

Images of Heaven

The Eternal Struggle of Love

The Voyage to the other Side

PART SIX

Inspiring Deaths

Jesus (D. 33)

Ignatius (D. 107)

Columba (D. 597)

Moninne (D. C. 518)

Aidan (D. 651)

Cuthbert (D. 687) and Ramon (D. 2000)

Hilda (D. 680)

Caedmon (D. 680)

A Boy (D. C. 690)

Bede (D. 735)

Mum (D. 1971)

Colin

A Dancer (D. PRE-1994)

Norma (D. 1991)

Nigel (D. 1993)

The ‘Sweet Pea’ (D. 1999)

A Blessing for Death

References

Some Helpful Books

Pull-out Forms

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Praise

Copyright

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