Better Living Through Death brings a companion piece to Alan Ball's mortuary family drama, not as a collection of writing *about the show*, but a meta-artifact *from* the show: readers are graced with a scrapbook collection of letters, photos, valentines, post-cards, short-stories, diary entries, chatlogs and other tidbits from throughout the Fisher's lives, written by the show's writing and producing staff as if by the characters themselves. You'll finally be able to read the first two chapters of Nathaniel & Isobel (young adult fiction favorite of Billy and Brenda Chenowith), portions of Dr. Feinberg's meditation on Brenda's childhood, and letters home to Ruth Fisher from Vietnam.