Includes bibliographical references.

1. Time Enough: The Nunc Dimittis -- 2. Learning to Die Well: Formation and the Community of Faith -- 3. The Naturalness of It All -- 4. Death -- 5. Personal Identity and the Soul -- 6. Living In Communion -- 7. Death and the Funeral Rites -- 8. Epilogue: The Experience of Death in Poetry and Music.

"Our mortality is an ever-present fact of life that we only face up to from time to time in moments of crisis. The author's conviction is that it is wise to think through the meaning of our mortality calmly and confidently as an ordinary matter of life. He approaches it from the point of view of the Christian belief in God's eternal presence and the opportunity God presents to each person to realise it. Indeed, the argument is that by so doing we shall enter more fully into the freedom of life and know the hope implicit in death."--BOOK JACKET.