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

Fond Farewells

Bess Lovejoy

Last Meals

Brent Cunningham

Mournful Creatures

Virginia Morell

Map

Departures

Miscellany

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

Hector Berlioz encounters a tearjerker.

Burying the Union dead.

François Villon goes out fighting.

Gustav Mahler on the loss of a child.

The cask of Horatio Nelson.

The Third Reich commits suicide.

Lermontov dies in a duel.

Combating the plague.

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

Crime Scene Investigation: Ancient Egypt.

Words of warning.

Don’t mess with Texas.

Sitting ducks.

Day of Infamy.

A lifetime of service.

Freud ponders his own immortality.

Survivor television.

Shakespearean body counts.

Sherwood Anderson and Tennessee Williams’ accidental demise.

Voices In Time

The Day Will Come

1927 | Charlestown, MA

Eve of Battle

1862 | Virginia

Gone Like Dreams

1849 | Filey

Don’t Look Back

8 | Tomis

The Fable of Hell

c. 58 BC | Egypt

One or Two Heartbreakers

1833 | London

Lost Child

c. 710 | Kyushu

Protest Song

1951 | Wales

Mistakes Were Made

1889 | New York City

What We Say Here

1863 | Gettysburg

Morbid Diary

1854 | London

Involved in Mankind

1623 | London

Offering a Solution

2012 | Moscow

The Caged Bird Sings

c. 1360 | Shiraz

Walking in Circles

1390 | Japan

Carted Off All the Same

c. 500 BC | Ephesus

Receiving the Summons

1926 | New York City

Living at Life’s Expense

c. 1573 | Aquitaine

To the Dogs and the Birds

c. 500 | Persia

In the Name of Love

1836 | London

Housecleaning

c. 1862 | Amherst, MA

Crackdown

1437 | Hanyang

Plague Party

1842 | Philadelphia

Examining the Cadavers

c. 2001 | Knoxville

Natural Law

1849 | Cape Cod

Between Method and Execution

1918 | Yekaterinburg

Finite Jest

c. 1600 | Denmark

Surviving a Plague

1892 | Iran

Charts and Graphs

American Ways of Death

Average Life Expectancy

Intimations of Immortality

Body Snatchers

Spoiler Alert

Tales of the Crypts

Instruments of Death

Last Words

How They Went

Death Tolls

Final Resting Places

Reanimators

The Funeral For...

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas Browne & Paul Zweig

David Hume & Jack Kevorkian

Virginia Woolf & Marguerite Duras

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