A Collection & Chronology of writings about:

Death, Dying, Grief and Mourning
in Western Literature

The Preface	The Introduction	The Chronology
... It is not just about death, which is my focus, but also about the parallels in cultural remnants from our earliest ties...	... authors have achieved all manner of technique in the connecting of death and death’s sphere of significance...	... Literary consideration of death is a challenging concept that each writer approaches according to his own set of cultural beliefs, experiences, observations, and imagination...
Index of Death in Literature

"There are two absolutes; an inescapable pattern in the entire existence of Human kind:
	the awareness of life, the arrival of death.
		Of the two, death is the most mysterious."	-Adrienne Nater


	To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler	Printable page