As one might expect from those endowed with creativity, the book is a colorful, grotesque, often hilarious collection of just about every type of death imaginable. Suicides, murders, accidents, and a range of metaphoric and conceptual deaths by gunshot, decapitation, hanging, wrist slitting, auto-erotic asphyxiation, and existential introspection fill the full-bleed color pages. The scenarios range from realistic crime scenes to full blown theatrical fantasies with the artists’ work figuring prominently in many. These elaborate mises en scènes suggest that, while taboo in polite society, the death drive is alive and kicking in the privacy of artists’ studios – and in the cultural imagination.