AcknowledgementsPreludeChapter 1: Danse Macabre: Queer Romances of Fascination and FearChapter 2: Global Mourning: Pandemic, Trauma and Mass Death Chapter 3: The Denial of Desire: Suicide and the Right to DeathChapter 4: Abolitionism: Mass Death and the Nonhuman Animal. Chapter 5: Capital Zombies, Death and DisabilityChapter 6: The Unspeakable Death (that is not Death)Chapter 7: Goth Culture, Occulture, Aesthetic Death CultureConclusion: The Difficult Joy of Death ActivismReferencesIndex

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