Death is the only certainty of life. The awareness of one's own mortality is a basic condition of being human and has challenged religions and philosophers to attempts at interpretation for centuries. With the possibility of man-made annihilation of life on earth in mind, this volume is devoted to various forms of dealing with one's own temporality: from the pomp of the funeral processions in ancient Rome and the ars moriendi of the Middle Ages to the revolutionary cemeteries in Paris, the memory of Hiroshima and the intolerability of the Holocaust, from heroic deaths in war to film deaths and dying practices in a cultural comparison to the infinite end in computer games and the hope of immortality in cyberspace. This volume invites you to an interdisciplinary tour d'horizon on how to deal with death in many different ways and presents research results from literary and cultural studies, from theology, philosophy and history as well as from art, music and media studies in a wide spectrum from antiquity to the present.