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  • Published: 8 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781623172923
  • Imprint: North Atlantic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 296
  • RRP: $36.99

Reimagining Death

Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials




For all those seeking to reclaim their innate and legal right to care for their own dead, create home funeral vigils, and choose greener after-death care options that are less toxic and more sustainable for the earth

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.

  • Published: 8 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781623172923
  • Imprint: North Atlantic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 296
  • RRP: $36.99

Praise for Reimagining Death

  • "Reading Lucinda Herring's work on the transformative experiences available during and after death is a journey through spiritual thought made tangible and accessible, and practical wisdom made easy to grasp. Her dedication to working with the dying and their families has made her a leader in natural and healing alternative practices, particularly within the home funeral and green burial movements."--Lee Webster, former president of the National Home Funeral Alliance, education chair of the Green Burial Council Board of Directors, and current director of NH Funeral Resource, Education & Advocacy
  • "As an inspirational teacher and practitioner of natural and nurturing death care practices, Lucinda empowers families and educates communities to gently care for our loved ones, our earth, and our environment. Her integrity and dedication to greening death is exemplary and by sharing her knowledge she offers us a profound opportunity to listen, learn, and heal. With her innate wisdom, depth of understanding, and compassionate approach, Lucinda embodies the sacred and brings both spiritual and practical guidance to her work. In doing so, she offers us the possibility of a more healing, transformative, and loving experience of death."--Claire Turnham, founder of Only with Love and chair of the Home Funeral Network



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