Full Stop focuses on man facing death.
The anthology covers the following: short stories, story bytes, poems, drama, speeches, essays, memoirs, songs, pictures, art, cartoons, advertisements, and film clips. The texts include audio-recordings either authentic or recorded by native English and American speakers integrated in the text files.
Death can represent a fascination like in W.B. Yeats' poem An Irish Airman Foresees his death or in the young poet Emily Middleton's My Future about a suicide bomber.
A voice from the grave can be heard in Come Not When I am Dead by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Epitaphs reveal different approaches to the genre e.g. by W.H. Auden and Rudyard Kipling. In her poem What the Wood Remembers Gillian Clarke gives her version of a modern epitaph.
The posthumous reputation becomes pivotal in remembrance of the deceased. A.E. Housman erects a monument for all young athletes who died at the peak of their lives in To an Athlete Dying Young. Elton John's song Candle in the Wind as well as Earl Spenser's Eulogy are everlasting tributes to Princess Diana at her premature death. Likewise in her eulogy to Rosa Parks Oprah Winfrey commemorates the female icon of the civil rights' movement in the USA.
Many more great authors have paid their respects to the dead in Full Stop...