Explores the end-of-life spiritual needs of people who do not identify with traditional religions.

Explores how religious understandings of death are experienced in hospice care.

Viewer's who saw The Couch Trip (1988) will remember Walter Matthau's character, Becker, in his black priestly robes outside the airport holding a sign saying 'People for the ethical treatment of plants' and may think he wrote this book. Actually, Hall (Centre for Middle Easter Plants in Edinburgh) broaches the subject with slightly more sanity, but with the same passion, declaring that plants are the life-giving substance that makes it possible for humans to exist. Yet, the pace at which humanity disregards and disrespects nature inspired this philosophical wake-up call to start paying attention to the plants in our lives; for failure to do so may leave us breathless. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)