Mayan carving, from the Copan Museum

Books and websites: Zen Hospice Project Funeral Consumers Alliance A.F.I.F. (France) Final Passages Memorial Ecosystems: A Living Legacy Last Acts Campaign Sociology of Death and Dying Salon.com special issue : Death The "End of Life" NPR book list The American Way of Death Revisited, by J. Mitford Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by M. Roach The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, by Starhawk and M.M. NightMare Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us How to Live, by M. de Hennezel Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition, by G.H. Mullin The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual, by R. Huntington & P. Metcalfe On Death and Dying, by E. Kübler-Ross Death to Dust : What Happens to Dead Bodies?, by K. Iserson Death & Dying, Life & Living, by C.A. Corr et al.