When death rears its ugly head, it demands a response. Whether through art or science, humor or ritual, mankind marks and confronts this passage with both defiance and trepidation.

  

	Social Sciences    Why do we laugh at death? The museum of death Interview with a hospice worker Linguistics
	Philosophy    The value of life Death in the movies The mass media's treatment of death  Symbols
	Science    The quest for immortality  Organ donation
	Art and Literature    How does art deal with death?  Death in the works of Shakespeare  Portraying death: interview with an actor   Write your own Villanelle  The Bible  Quotes about death