Death is a pretty serious business – but it doesn't all have to be doom and gloom. In "Dead Weird", Jim Hewitson is let loose on the ultimate taboo and finds that death can be fun for all the family, a good day out or the perfect excuse for a booze up or a fight. Executions, grizzly murders, raising the dead, battlefield carnagen clean-in-between-the-sheets death, traditions, proverbs, omens, anthems and premature burials – they're all here to give us a new perspective on life's greatest certainty: DEATH.