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As the founder of the field of psychoanalysis, Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud possessed remarkable insight into the human psyche. This collection brings together two interesting essays in which Freud applies his unparalleled understanding of the workings of the human mind to a discussion of a pair of perennial problems

1. Introducing economies of death / Kathryn A. Gillespie and Patricia J. Lopez -- 2. The currency of grief : 9/11 deaths, Afghan lives, and intimate intervention / Jennifer L. Fluri and Rachel Lehr -- 3. The cost of a second chance : life, death, and redemption among prison inmates and thoroughbred ex-racehorses in Bluegrass Kentucky / Tamar V.S. McKee -- 4. The administration of death : killing and letting die during the Cambodian genocide / James A. Tyner -- 5. Is the Puerto Rican parrot worth saving? The biopolitics of endangerment and grievability / Irus Braverman -- 6. "Deep inside dogs know what they want" : animality, affect, and killability in commercial pet foods / Jen Wrye -- 7. Archives of death : lynching photography, animalization, biopolitics, and the lynching of William James / Jack Taylor -- 8. Remains to be seen : photographing "road kill" and The Roadside Memorial Project / L.A. Watson -- 9. Love, death, food, and other ghost stories : the hauntings of intimacy and violence in contemporary Peru / Maria Elena Garcia -- 10. Economies of death : an ethical framework and future directions / Kathryn A. Gillespie and Patricia J. Lopez.

Little is known about the specific causes of neonatal and under-five childhood death in high-mortality geographic regions due to a lack of primary data and dependence on inaccurate tools, such as verbal autopsy. To meet the ambitious new Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 to eliminate preventable child mortality in every country, better approaches are needed to precisely determine specific causes of death so that prevention and treatment interventions can be strengthened and focused. Minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) is a technique that uses needle-based postmortem sampling, followed by advanced histopathology and microbiology to definitely determine cause of death. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting a new surveillance system called the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance network, which will determine cause of death using MITS in combination with other information, and yield cause-specific population-based mortality rates, eventually in up to 12-15 sites in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. However, the Gates Foundation funding alone is not enough. We call on governments, other funders, and international stakeholders to expand the use of pathology-based cause of death determination to provide the information needed to end preventable childhood mortality.