I just finished reading Sallie Tisdale’s, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them). Perhaps not beach material, but well worth reading. The book’s subtitle is “A Practical Perspective of Death and Dying”. But, as Paul Sehgal wrote in his NYT review, “…in its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live.” Ms. Tisdale writes, “Birth and death are the only human acts we cannot practice”. Yet, after reading, “Advice for Future Corpses”, one should be much better prepared.