"Death our Future" is essential reading for everyone involved in Christian ministry to dying, dead or bereaved people in the UK.A range of distinguished authors explore issues of Christian ministry around death, assess developments over the last decade and present them in ways that will engage, inform and equip Christians for facing dying, death, bereavement and memorialization.Five sections address the context of Christian funeral ministry today; modern patterns of death and bereavement; the theology of death and of disposal; contemporary issues in burial and cremation; funeral liturgies, and distinctive regional perspectives.