Songs about death can be comforting after losing a loved one or friend. Here are 20 of the saddest to date. By Kenneth Partridge For a group of people obsessed with immortality, pop stars sure do sing ...

Rock music has always been a great genre for narratives about love, loss, fame, and power. However, there are quite a few particularly beautiful rock songs out there about death, each written with a ...

Songwriters often approach universal topics in different ways. For example, love songs can be found across multiple genres. The same is true for songs about death. Countless singers and songwriters ...

These songs may be hits… but that doesn’t mean they should be played at every event, especially not funerals. Time and place are important factors to consider when it comes to these songs, like the ...

Aging artists of faith are writing about mortality. For many of them, that’s nothing new. “She really tried her best.” So begins “Memento Mori,” a song by award-winning Christian artist Carolyn Arends ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images/BSR Agency Mike Rutherford was midway through the US leg of Genesis’s ...

The Cure’s frontman Robert Smith recently said he struggles to write songs about death at his age. Smith, 65, said the idea of mortality has become more real as he’s gotten older, in an interview with ...

"I can write words but I don't really feel like singing them." Robert Smith's macabre sensibilities helped launch the Cure to massive success — but nowadays the musician is finding it harder to write ...