Check out this book.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Dawn is married to Brian and has a teenage daughter, Meret.
They live in Boston.
Brian is a professor of physics at Harvard and Dawn works as a death doula.
I am not sure if that is a position in real life, but it should be...
The actual Book of Two Ways was found in certain coffins in Egypt and was a guidebook, a map, to assist the deceased with the afterlife, by either land or water routes.
Source: Central Coast Community News