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Explores physical and metaphorical forms of death; war, death penalty, abortion, euthanasia, dead languages, failed nations, HIV/AIDS, and other issues; 14 articles. Contents: "If all else fail...": there is a world of difference between death and dying, by AC Grayling; Forces of life and death: how to reconcile the right to life with the death penalty, by Mary Kenny; Controversial cross-section: art, anatomy or merely pornographic? by Natasha Schmidt; Sex, lies and censorship: why it took so long for the US paedophile priests scandal to hit the headlines, by Carl M. Cannon; The epic that will not die: Romania clings to its apparatchiks, by Irena Maryniak; The unquiet grave: the disputed graveyards of Eastern Europe, by Vera Rich; The house of burned books: book burning turns out to be a universally enjoyed phenomenon, by Stacy Marking; Holding on to Babel: what happens when a language dies, by Helena Drysdale; Death of a nation: can Sierra Leone claim any longer to be a functioning state? by Aminatta Forna; Women and war: when women become military targets, by Victoria Brittain; Fucking soldiers: how armies spread AIDS in Africa, by Alex de Waal; Price of a life--or death: and the cost of the inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings; Holding on to a dream: hope dies as Palestinians await the return journey, by Caroline Moorehead; Strip search, by Martin Rowson.

Thinking about death -- The nature of death -- Physical disintegration -- Psychological disintegration -- Reincarnation -- Resurrection -- Medical immortality -- Digital immortality -- An existential phenomenon of life -- The value of death -- Bad or good -- To be feared or not -- To be grieved and how -- The choice of death -- To be hastened or not : the case of suicide -- To be hastened or not : the case of treatment refusal -- To be hastened or not: the case of physician-assisted suicide -- The lessons of death -- A window into life -- Glossary of philosophical terms -- References.