What is the secret of people who die contented and fulfilled? From time to time during his work as a pastor, John Fanestil has witnessed someone dying with remarkable and uplifting grace. Fanestil was moved yet puzzled by the spirit of happiness and holiness he observed. The chance discovery of articles about the ritual of the 'happy death' in religious magazines from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries brought Fanestil the answers he sought.
Mrs. Hunter's Happy Death blends the captivating historical accounts Fanestil uncovered with his own pastoral experiences to reveal the secrets that enable people to transcend pain and suffering and embrace death as a completion of life, not as a tragic end.
