Author Description

Eighteen 'non-fiction pieces that explore many questions related to death and dying, including public and private responses to death and cultures as diverse as Ireland, Mexico, Australia and the US.' - Publisher. Contributors include American writers Thomas Lynch and Kathryn Harrison, Irish writer Christopher Hope, Canadian writer John Ralston Saul, Indian writer Githa Hariharan, Australian historian, Inga Clendinnen and Australian authors, Phillip Adams, Rosemary Sorenson, Gabrielle Carey, Anne Deveson, Mungo MacCallum.