Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Notes on contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Death in Society
7. 1 Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice 13
8. 2 Beyond ‘mourning and melancholia’ 22
9. 3 War and requiem compositions in the twentieth century 39
10. Part II: Death in Literature
11. 4 Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: The Writer’s Experience 55
12. 5 A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci’s La Via Crucis dell’umanità 68
13. 6 From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: Communally Acknowledged ‘Good Death’ in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying 81
14. 7 Habeas Corpse: The Dead Body of Evidence in John Grisham’s The Client 91
15. 8 The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-first-Century Crime Fiction 102
16. Part III: Death in Visual Culture
17. 9 The Power of Negative Creation – Why Art by Serial Killers Sells 115
18. 10 Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship 126
19. 11 The Broken Body as Spectacle: Looking at Death and Injury in Sport 142
20. 12 Death on Display: The Ideological Function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit 153
21. Part IV: Cemeteries and Funerals
22. 13 The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa 169
23. 14 In the dead of night: A Nocturnal Exploration of Heterotopia in the Graveyard 183
24. 15 Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshis in Lisbon 198
25. 16 Karaoke Death: Intertextuality in Active Euthanasia Practices 213
26. Part V: Personal Reflections on Death
27. 17 Death is Not What it Used to Be: A Comparison between Customs of Death in the UK and Spain. Changes in the Last Thirty-Five Years 227
28. 18 The Dad Project 237
29. Index 255