Many people are studying how autophagy intersects with cell death. While most of those studies relate to autophagy acting as a protective mechanism (e.g., to block apoptosis), many papers conclude that autophagy is a death mechanism, and there is a widespread belief that autophagy (in most, but not all cases, we are talking about macroautophagy) can both kill and protect cells depending on the circumstances. Not surprisingly therefore, many of the papers submitted to Autophagy study the relationship between autophagy and cell death.