Death, Dying, Grief, and Mourning in Western Literature

The preface

... It is not just about death, which is my focus, but also about the parallels in cultural remnants from our earliest ties...

The Introduction

... authors have achieved all manner of technique in the connecting of death and death’s sphere of significance...

The Chronology

... Literary consideration of death is a challenging concept that each writer approaches according to his own set of cultural beliefs, experiences, observations, and imagination...

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

-Adrienne Nater