Aaron is an unattached, neurotic, successful Manhattan lawyer with an inoperable brain tumor. After closely scrutinizing his options, he chooses to die at a private hospice in the eastern Ontario countryside where he befriends an enlightened shaman-nurse-thanatologist, Althea Love Three-Eagle-Feathers, and her medicine-women cohorts. They escort him on his great, final journey of discovery. Using modern and traditional techniques-including massage therapy for pain control, medicinal and psychoactive herbs, wine ceremonies, sweat lodge, and an outdoor lifestyle -they support him with the...