I. Death in contemporary literature: 1. Kurt Vonnegut on death / Dylan Lynch
2. Christopher Hitchens and death / Danielle Dirocco
II. Death in classic literature: 3. Politics and death in the Divine Comedy / Andrew Karanikolis
4. Peter Pan: Aging, death and immortality / Samantha Pettey
III. Terrorism and the call to die: 5. The duty of death / Elizabeth Toppi
6. Palestinian suicide bombers / Christopher Turco
IV. The loss of innocence and of life: 7. Sub-Saharan African child soldiers' views concerning human mortality / Margaret Frost
8. African child soldiers on life and death / Alexander Colantonio
9. Blood out: Nihilism in gang culture / Ilana Coenen
V. Death in Nazism and Fascism: 10. Death through the eyes of the Nazi Schutzstaffel / Morgan Zubof
11. Mussolini on death / Eli Roth
VI. Suicide: When life is more fearsome than death: 12. Suicide in Japan / Anastasia O'Keefe
A philosophy / Shelby Sullivan-Bennis
VII. Death flexing its muscles: 14. Understanding the Black Death and mortality / Max Cantor
15. The evolution of the reaper / Daniel Magill
16. Chaplains on death row / Liana Goff
VIII. The excitement of living near death: 17. Facing death at the top of the world / Peter Zubof
18. Jane Goodall: The peace of the forest in a deforested world / Ashley Stoehr.
