Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index.
Contents
My death benefit (autobiography) -- Death benefits : the last taboo -- Going through the stuff : choosing a legacy -- Using the good china : deserving a life at last -- My body, my self : health and beauty benefits -- Till death do us part : marriage and divorce -- Lifted up in my mother's arms : religious epiphanies -- A voice of my own : creative self-expression -- Father knows best? The punitive parent dies -- Mom's best friend : the end of emotional caretaking -- The eleventh hour : near-death revelations -- Perspectives from the deathspace -- In their end is my beginning : cultivating death benefits.