Poetry and the Good Death
Last words and Avengers: Endgame
Death and goodness
George MacDonald’s ‘The Gifts of the Christ Child’
Literary Epitaphs
and the question of monuments
Poetic creativity and the fear of death
Is the ‘good life’ a life of purpose?
Anger and futility:
Wilfred Owen and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’
Glorification of military deaths
Writing as absolution:
Siegfried Sassoon and ‘The Poet as Hero’
Apathy
and W. B. Yeats’s An Irish Airman foresees His Death
An Anthropologist Reflects:
The idea of death and how we live with it
An anthropologist reflects: Death do us part
Henry James: Meditations on Life after Death
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and the Good Lie
Do not go gentle into that good night