Death ain't nothin' new: from John Barleycorn to John Walker's blues
Teenage wildlife: from sob to suicide
Blood on the floor: murder, music and morality
How does it feel?: death and the sixties
Appetite for self destruction: oblivion songs
Sweetness follows?: into the great beyond
Gangsta gangsta: rap reclaims the murder song
Sometimes it snows in April: the music of loss
Who wants to live forever?: the fat lady's songbook
The art of dying (slight return)
Epilogue. To die for: the forty greatest death songs.