Are we doomed, he wondered, to a relentless battle against death in which "nothing will ever count as success"?
Cohen recently gave his first interview since Peaches' death, in which he appeared unprepared for questions about his wife.
It was the killing of one of his students, a death in which he alone was named as a suspect.
One of the two texts that underpin it is John Donne's sonnet "Death", in which death is personified, externalised, and rendered vincible.
Mr. Rubin said his office was investigating whether actions of the couple caused the boy's death, in which case, more serious charges could be filed.
Mitchell turned Ravenhill's text into a song cycle set at the time of the Black Death, in which a decimated population is struggling to maintain social order.
Mitchell has the advantage of a superb new version by Ted Hughes, completed shortly before his death, in which the language has a tactile dramatic force.
The seminal noir "Kiss of Death," in which Richard Widmark pushes an old lady in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs, makes its debut on DVD.
Two plays about living death in which words are everything yet not enough – and where lip service is about to be suspended.
A.L.S., or Lou Gehrig's disease, is often described as a kind of living death in which the body goes flaccid while the mind remains intact and acutely aware.
A note was found after his death, in which he said he was "jumped on" by staff because he refused to go into his cell.
