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

Mournful Creatures

Virginia Morell

Last Meals

Brent Cunningham

Fond Farewells

Bess Lovejoy

Map

Departures

Miscellany

The Third Reich commits suicide.

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

Words of warning.

Lermontov dies in a duel.

François Villon goes out fighting.

A lifetime of service.

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

Crime Scene Investigation: Ancient Egypt.

Sitting ducks.

Survivor television.

Sherwood Anderson and Tennessee Williams’ accidental demise.

Shakespearean body counts.

Burying the Union dead.

Freud ponders his own immortality.

Combating the plague.

Hector Berlioz encounters a tearjerker.

Gustav Mahler on the loss of a child.

The cask of Horatio Nelson.

Don’t mess with Texas.

Day of Infamy.

Voices In Time

Housecleaning

c. 1862 | Amherst, MA

Between Method and Execution

1918 | Yekaterinburg

Lost Child

c. 710 | Kyushu

Involved in Mankind

1623 | London

Crackdown

1437 | Hanyang

Eve of Battle

1862 | Virginia

Plague Party

1842 | Philadelphia

Protest Song

1951 | Wales

Don’t Look Back

8 | Tomis

Finite Jest

c. 1600 | Denmark

Walking in Circles

1390 | Japan

Examining the Cadavers

c. 2001 | Knoxville

Carted Off All the Same

c. 500 BC | Ephesus

Surviving a Plague

1892 | Iran

In the Name of Love

1836 | London

Receiving the Summons

1926 | New York City

Natural Law

1849 | Cape Cod

What We Say Here

1863 | Gettysburg

Living at Life’s Expense

c. 1573 | Aquitaine

Offering a Solution

2012 | Moscow

The Caged Bird Sings

c. 1360 | Shiraz

Morbid Diary

1854 | London

The Fable of Hell

c. 58 BC | Egypt

Gone Like Dreams

1849 | Filey

Mistakes Were Made

1889 | New York City

One or Two Heartbreakers

1833 | London

To the Dogs and the Birds

c. 500 | Persia

The Day Will Come

1927 | Charlestown, MA

Charts and Graphs

Final Resting Places

Tales of the Crypts

How They Went

Instruments of Death

Death Tolls

Spoiler Alert

Body Snatchers

The Funeral For...

American Ways of Death

Reanimators

Intimations of Immortality

Average Life Expectancy

Last Words

Contributors

Conversations

Virginia Woolf & Marguerite Duras

David Hume & Jack Kevorkian

Thomas Browne & Paul Zweig

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