Vampires and Zombies

Death.  No one wants to think about it or talk about it.  Until it happens and then we all scramble in a fog to take care of things.  And death is expensive.  But now everywhere we look we see books, movies, shows about vampires, zombies, etc.  Basically they are dead people.  There are lots of them, some pretty and some ugly.  And they have become very popular.  It's been posited that all of us are one or the other basically.  And if somehow you are neither, say a regular person, you are "dead meat" (per Heather Havrilesky).