The Dead Toreador, by Édouard Manet, c. 1864. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The Dead Toreador, by Édouard Manet, c. 1864. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Death

Volume VI, Number 4 | fall 2013

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Memento Mori

Lewis H. Lapham

Squeak & Gibber

John Crowley

Last Meals

Brent Cunningham

Fond Farewells

Bess Lovejoy

Mournful Creatures

Virginia Morell

Map

Departures

Miscellany

Don’t mess with Texas.

Combating the plague.

J.M.W. Turner gives a doctor his opinion.

The cask of Horatio Nelson.

Sherwood Anderson and Tennessee Williams’ accidental demise.

Survivor television.

Words of warning.

A lifetime of service.

Gustav Mahler on the loss of a child.

Crime Scene Investigation: Ancient Egypt.

Sitting ducks.

Freud ponders his own immortality.

Hector Berlioz encounters a tearjerker.

François Villon goes out fighting.

The Third Reich commits suicide.

Shakespearean body counts.

Lermontov dies in a duel.

Burying the Union dead.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve had champagne.”

Day of Infamy.

Voices In Time

Examining the Cadavers

c. 2001 | Knoxville

Surviving a Plague

1892 | Iran

Morbid Diary

1854 | London

Offering a Solution

2012 | Moscow

Involved in Mankind

1623 | London

Natural Law

1849 | Cape Cod

Eve of Battle

1862 | Virginia

To the Dogs and the Birds

c. 500 | Persia

Plague Party

1842 | Philadelphia

Housecleaning

c. 1862 | Amherst, MA

Protest Song

1951 | Wales

Crackdown

1437 | Hanyang

What We Say Here

1863 | Gettysburg

Finite Jest

c. 1600 | Denmark

Walking in Circles

1390 | Japan

The Day Will Come

1927 | Charlestown, MA

Don’t Look Back

8 | Tomis

Receiving the Summons

1926 | New York City

The Caged Bird Sings

c. 1360 | Shiraz

Lost Child

c. 710 | Kyushu

Mistakes Were Made

1889 | New York City

One or Two Heartbreakers

1833 | London

The Fable of Hell

c. 58 BC | Egypt

Living at Life’s Expense

c. 1573 | Aquitaine

Gone Like Dreams

1849 | Filey

In the Name of Love

1836 | London

Carted Off All the Same

c. 500 BC | Ephesus

Between Method and Execution

1918 | Yekaterinburg

Charts and Graphs

Death Tolls

Body Snatchers

Final Resting Places

American Ways of Death

The Funeral For...

How They Went

Average Life Expectancy

Last Words

Instruments of Death

Tales of the Crypts

Spoiler Alert

Intimations of Immortality

Reanimators

Contributors

Conversations

Virginia Woolf & Marguerite Duras

Thomas Browne & Paul Zweig

David Hume & Jack Kevorkian

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