The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead

Prologue: Letter to My Father

Infancy and Childhood

Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun

Decline and Fall (i)

Boys vs. Girls (i)

Origins

Paradise, Soon Lost

News Flash: We Are Animals

Motherhood

The Actuarial Prime of Life, or Why Children Don't Like Spicy Food

Sex and Death (i)

Hoop Dream (ii)

Bloodline to Star Power (i)

Adolescence

Rattlesnake Lake

Boys vs. Girls (ii)

Why Lionesses Prefer Dark Brunettes, or Why Both Men and Women Are Attracted to Deep Voices

Superheroes

Hoop Dreams (iv and v)

Dying Just a Little

Ye Olde Mind-Body Problem

Sex and Death (ii)

Adulthood and Middle Age

Decline and Fall (ii)

Bloodline to Star Power (ii)

Boys vs. Girls (iii)

Sex Changes (Everything)

Memento Mori

The Trouble with Being Food

Everything I Know I've Learned from My Bad Back

Notes on the Local Swimming Hole

Sex and Death (iii)

Hoop Dream (viii)

Old Age and Death

Decline and Fall (iii)

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

Boys vs. Girls (iv)

Chronicle of Death Foretold

Death Is the Mother of Beauty

Life Is That Which Gives Meaning to Life

How to Live Forever (i)

How to Live Forever (ii)

Last Words

Bloodline to Star Power (iii)

Sex and Death (iv)

The Story Told One Last Time, from Beginning to End

Exit Interviews

Notes for Eulogy for My Father

Permissions Acknowledgments