Rev. Barbara Becker is the author of Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind. She has dedicated more than twenty-five years to partnering with human-rights advocates around the world in pursuit of peace and interreligious understanding. Barbara has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, and has participated in a delegation of Zen Peacemakers and Lakota elders in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She is an ordained interfaith minister who has sat with hundreds of people at the end of their lives. She lives in New York City with her interfaith family. More at http://barbarabecker.com/