Available now:
"The Art of Dying"
Honoring & Celebrating Life’s Passages
by Salli Rasberry & Carole Watanabe.
Publisher Tenspeed Press Berkeley.

   Our desire in writing this book is to bring forth a more complete vision of death. It is time to invite death out of the shadows of the underworld into the sunlight of our lives, to open death's door and replace fear and denial with joy and freedom.
   There is a renaissance under way. In the last twenty or so years, across our nation, self-reliant and creative people have handcrafted their own wedding ceremonies, taken control of how and where their children were birthed, and are now redefining death and dying.
   We hope to inspire and encourage more of you so that we are not just isolated pockets of people celebrating life/death, but are part of a greater spiritual awakening. One of the consequences of our modern, technological age is that we have become isolated from each other, from life and from death. The choice is ours—to remain disconnected onlookers or to seize the opportunity to become active advocates for more compassion and meaning in our lives. . .