Death consumes us – dispatches from the “death professors”

This special issue on consumption and death marks another point on an upward trajectory of the mainstreaming of death and death-related consumption and marketing research. Death, like sex, is all around us; marketing and consumption is interwoven into the services we choose, the products we prefer, and the relationships we revere. This introduction provides a brief overview of consumption and death research, and summarizes the papers included in the special issue.