I ran into this great book at the local library:

Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals For Embracing The End of Life by Megory Anderson.

I just love this book and it makes me think about doing volunteer work in the hospice field. She runs the nonprofit Sacred Dying Foundation in San Francisco. I will have to buy this one. It's really thorough, she has covered everything I can think of to help anyone have a spiritual death experience no matter what their tradition or situation is.

I may elaborate on this later but I wanted to enter it so I wouldn't forget--the book has to go back to the library.