Cover -- Dealing with Death: A Handbook of Practices, Procedures and Law: Second Edition -- Contents -- PREFACE -- A NOTE ON THE TEXT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Part 1. Legal and Technical Aspects -- Chapter 1. Customs and Laws -- Chapter 2. Medical Certification of Cause of Death -- Chapter 3. Registration of Death -- Chapter 4. Coroners and Coroner's Inquiries -- Chapter 5. Fetal Loss, Stillbirth, Neonatal Death and Sudden Death in Infancy -- Chapter 6. The Autopsy and Mortuary Practice -- Chapter 7. Funeral Direction and Disposal by Burial -- Chapter 8. Disposal by Cremation -- Chapter 9. Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation -- Chapter 10. The Law and Practice of Exhumation -- Part 2: Considerations for the Living, Care of the Dying, and Death with Dignity -- Chapter 12. Palliative Care -- Chapter 13. Medico-legal Issues at the End of Life -- Chapter 14. Last Offices -- Chapter 15. Bereavement -- Chapter 16. The Control of Infection in Life and in Death -- Part 3: Religious, Ethnic and Cultural Aspects of Dying and Death -- Chpater 17. Christianity and the Sacraments -- Chapter 18. The Anglican Church (The Church in Wales, the Church in Ireland, the Episcopalian Church in Scotland) -- Chapter 19. The Roman Catholic Church -- Chapter 20. Free Churches and Other Churches -- Chapter 21. Jehovah's Witnesses -- Chapter 22. The Mormon Church -- Chapter 23. Christian Science -- Chapter 24. The African-Caribbean Community -- Chapter 25. Rastafarianism -- Chapter 26. The Jewish Faith -- Chapter 27. Buddhism -- Chapter 28 The Baha'i Faith -- Chapter 29. Islam -- Chapter 30. Hindusim -- Chapter 31. Sikhism -- Chapter 32. Zoroastrians (Parsees) -- Chapter 33. The Chinese Community -- Chapter 34. The Japanese Community -- Chapter 35. HIV/AIDS.

APPENDIX A. ORGANISATIONS WHICH MAY BE ABLE TO OFFER HELP WITH VARIOUS ASPECTS OF DYING AND DEATH -- APPENDIX B. SOURCES OF ADVICE ON FORENSIC PATHOLOGY -- APPENDIX C. FURTHER READING -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.