The Grim Reader Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
Pt. 1	Reckonings
	Wrestling With the Fact
	Sigmund Freud: On Transience	10
	Bertolt Brecht: On His Mortality	14
	Michel De Montaigne: To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die	16
	Thomas Nagel: Death	25
	C. P. Cavafy: The Horses of Achilles	33
	Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory	35
	Being Brave and Being Scared
	Philip Larkin: Aubade	40
	Paul Zweig: Departures	42
	John Keats: Sonnet	61
	Marguerite Yourcenar: With Open Eyes	62
	Adam Smith: On the Death of David Hume	66
	William Hazlitt: On the Fear of Death	80
	Robert Louis Stevenson: Aes Triplex	82
	Time to Be Old
	A. R. Ammons: From Garbage	88
	Samuel Clemens: On Old Age	93
	Luis Benuel: Swan Song	95
	Kingley Amis: Lovely	101
	Philip Larkin: The Old Fools	102
Pt. 2	What Words Are There?
	Left Behind
	Paul Auster: Portrait of an Invisible Man	110
	Donald Justice: Sonnet to My Father	115
	Colette: He Died in His Seventy-Fourth Year	116
	Alvin Feinman: True Night	121
	Emily Dickinson: Poems and a Letter	123
	Sharon Olds: The Death of Marilyn Monroe	129
	One Fight More
	Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici	132
	James Merrill: An Upward Look	134
	Simone De Beauvoir: A Very Easy Death	136
	Nicole Loraux: A Woman's Suicide for a Man's Death	144
	Sons and Daughters
	Grace Paley: Mother	152
	James Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son	154
	Philip Roth: Patrimony	162
	Anne Sexton: The Child-Bearers	167
	Elizabeth Rosen: My Mother's Death	169
Pt. 3	Give Death the Crown: War, Pestilence, Genocide
	In Its Midst
	Jasper Griffin: On Epic Death	180
	Alan Moorehead: Gallipoli	182
	Giovanni Boccaccio: The Plague in London	196
	Samuel Pepys: The Plague in London	196
	Primo Levi: October 1944	206
	Robert Jay Lifton: Immersion in Death	215
	Our Plague: Aids
	Emmanuel Dreuilhe: Mortal Embrace	224
	Thom Gunn: Terminal	229
	Paul Monette: 3275	230
Pt. 4	Making Arrangements
	The "Formal Feeling": Rites and Ritual
	Emily Vermeule: A Very Active Dead	258
	Geoffrey Gorer: Death, Grief, and Mourning in Contemporary Britain	267
	Sheila Awooner-Renner: I Desperately Needed to See My Son	280
	George Bernard Shaw: On the Cremation of His Mother	285
	Richard Selzer: Remains	289
	Death Cultures
	Philippe Aries: The Modern Cemetery	296
	Jessica Mitford: The American Way of Death	302
	Rudolf Schafer: Photographing the Dead	312
	Roland Barthes: Camera Lucida	314
	Siegried Giedion: The Mechanization of Death	317
	Erwin Panofsky: The Dangerous Dead	322
	Legacies
	E. A. J. Honigmann: The Second-Best Bed	330
	Carlos M. N. Eire: From Madrid to Purgatory	340
Pt. 5	Death Issues
	Final Care
	George Orwell: How the Poor Die	352
	Anne Munley: The Hospice Alternative	363
	Jospeh A. Califano: Death Management	370
	Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
	Timothy Quill: The Burdens of Aggressive Medical Treatment	378
	Ronald Dworkin: Life's Dominion	380
	Michael Burleigh: "Euthanasia" In Germany	386
Pt. 6	A Healthy Distance
	Samuel Beckett: Malone Dies	400
	Stanley Elkin: The Beginning of the (Living)Dead	402
	Monty Python: The Dead Parrot	409
	Milan Kundera: Graveside Laughter	413
Pt. 7	Recapitulation
	William Shakespeare: Hamlet: The Graveyard	419