""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Introduction: Tales from the Crypt -- A Metaphor, An Image, A Story ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""NOTES ""; ""Part One. In Extremis""; ""1. Death as the Horizon of the Law ""; ""INTRODUCTION: LIMITING THE LAW ""; ""SCENES FROM THE EXECUTION ""; ""DEATH AND THE DECOMPOSITION OF JUDICIAL DISCOURSE ""; ""CONCLUSION: THE LIMITLESS LIMIT ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""NOTES ""; ""2. Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations and the Terror of SÃ?ssmayr ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""A ""; ""I ""; ""II ""; ""B ""; ""I ""; ""II ""; ""C ""; ""I ""; ""II ""; ""CONCLUSION ""

""ACKNOWLEDGEMENT """"NOTES ""; ""3. Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""DOING DEATH SILENTLY, INVISIBLY ""; ""ON THE INVISIBLE BODY OF THE CONDEMNED ""; ""THE 'BODY IN PAIN' ""; ""CONCLUSION ""; ""NOTES ""; ""4. The Sanctity of Death: Poetry and the Law and Ethics of Euthanasia ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: A POEM, AND AN ESSAY ON POETRY ""; ""CONCLUSION ""; ""NOTES ""; ""Part Two. Post Mortem""; ""5. 'But a Lump of Earth'?: The Legal Status of the Corpse ""; ""A LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CORPSE ""

""Enter the Body Snatchers """"The 'Right' of Burial: Possession and Disposal of the Corpse ""; ""More Property than Person? ""; ""THEORISING THE CORPSE ""; ""POSTSCRIPT: A COHERENT VIEW OF THE COMPLETE PERSON? ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""NOTES ""; ""6. Bodily Remains in the Cemetery and the Burial Ground: A Comparative Anthropology of Law and Death or How Long Can I Stay? ""; ""ARCHAEOLOGY AND ABORIGINAL REMAINS ""; ""THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND TO THE LAW OF BODILY REMAINS ""; ""AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDES ""; ""CHARACTERISING THE RIGHT TO REMAIN ONCE BURIED ""; ""ABORIGINAL VIEWS ""

""RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITH ARCHAEOLOGY """"LEGAL CONTROL OF ABORIGINAL BURIAL SITES ""; ""LAW, PERCEPTIONS OF MORTALITY AND THE FUTURE ""; ""NOTES ""; ""7. Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?: Inquiring into Pitjantjatjara Deaths ""; ""DEATH AND THE POLICE ""; ""DEATH AND THE PITJANTJATJARA ""; ""Ritual Inquest: The Aboriginal Coronial Method ""; ""The Process of Ritual Inquest ""; ""CONCLUSION: DID HE FALL OR WAS HE PUSHED? ""; ""NOTES ""; ""8. Pro Patria Mori: Law, Reconciliation and the Nation ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""NOTES ""; ""Part Three. Memento Mori""

""9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and Thanatos""""I ""; ""II ""; ""III ""; ""IV ""; ""NOTES ""; ""10. The Ethical Obligation to Show Allegiance to the Un- knowable ""; ""THE DEATH OF MY OTHER AND THE SURVIVING ME: : NONSENSE AND SENSIBILITY ""; ""LEGAL VISION AND THE APPROPRIATION OF DEATH S ABSURDITY ""; ""THE OTHER AS 'LIVING-THING' AND LEGAL CLOSURE ""; ""BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE OF THE LIVING- THING : RUPTURE OF LEGAL CLOSURE ""; ""NOTES ""; ""11. Stephen Dedalus' Magic Words: Death and the Law between James Joyce and Pierre Legendre ""